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TIL the title of “prime minister” was originally a derogatory epithet used by 18th century British members of parliament to compare the role of Robert Walpole, First Lord of the Treasury, to that of the tyrannical Cardinal Richelieu of France.

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TIL the title of “prime minister” was originally a derogatory epithet used by 18th century British members of parliament to compare the role of Robert Walpole, First Lord of the Treasury, to that of the tyrannical Cardinal Richelieu of France.

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TIL that when submarines were first introduced in European navies around 1900, Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson, 1st Sea Lord of the British Navy, called them “underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English.” He proposed that any submarine crew caght in wartime be hanged as pirates

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TIL that the 1970 single “Paranoid” by Black Sabbath was intended to be a “3 minute filler” track for the album of the same name, built around a Tony Iommi riff of entirely power chords. It has since reached over 1.5 billion Spotify streams and is considered one of the best heavy metal songs ever.

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TIL Mister Rogers invited Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch of the West) onto his show to help explain that her character was make-believe and the real Margaret wasn’t scary at all.

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