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TIL that a genetic disease might have been behind Henry VIII’s low number of surviving children and his crazed behavior in his middle and later years.
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Submitted August 26, 2024 at 02:24AM by Mundane_Humor899
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TIL in 2019, the Netherlands became the first country to completely ban the Hells Angels biker gang. In July of 2022, the Supreme Court Of The Netherlands reaffirmed this ban and made it permanent. Other countries (such as Germany) had banned local chapters, but never the club as a whole.
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Submitted August 26, 2024 at 02:50AM by MaroonTrucker28
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TIL that there is a name for when people are cousins through both parents, it is "double cousins".
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Submitted August 26, 2024 at 04:34AM by Frisk-256
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TIL the 2010 Flash Crash, during which the US stock market temporarily lost $1 trillion in value, was partly caused by Navinder Sarao, an autistic man living in his parents' London home. In a span of 5 years, Sarao made a profit of $40 million by tricking high frequency traders with custom software.
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Submitted August 26, 2024 at 01:48PM by gixk
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TIL of Captain Citrus, a fictional mascot based on Captain America from the Florida Department of Citrus, a state body tasked with promoting Florida's orange industry. Created in 2011 as "Ollie the Orange", Florida paid Marvel around $1 million in 2014 to redesign and publicly promote the character.
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Submitted August 26, 2024 at 04:39PM by Obversa
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TIL The Smarties Candy in most countries outside the US is a Chocolate M&Ms alternative instead of a Sugar Tablet.
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Submitted August 26, 2024 at 07:52PM by rcmaehl
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TIL that there is an impact crater over 25 miles in diameter buried beneath Chesapeake Bay which was revealed in 1993 from oil drilling data, and that prior to impact many, many moons ago, Richmond, VA was covered in thick tropical rainforest
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Submitted August 26, 2024 at 07:49PM by QTheStrongestAvenger
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TIL the American Military’s C-5 Galaxy is nicknamed FRED by aircrews for “Fucking Ridiculous Economic (or) Environmental Disaster”. Due to the C-5 using large amounts of fuel, maintenance, reliability, & cost of production.
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Submitted August 26, 2024 at 08:46PM by Old_Government_4342
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TIL During an ecumenical council meeting between 1414 to 1418, Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund made a Latin grammatical error by conjugating "schisma" as feminine. When a cardinal corrected him, he replied "I am king of the Romans and above grammar." He was nicknamed "Super Grammaticam" by historians.
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Submitted August 26, 2024 at 08:34PM by zhuquanzhong
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TIL that due to a disfunction of the ABCCII gene the majority of Asians have significantly less body odor than other populations
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 12:02AM by Sometypeofway18
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TIL The 'Magna Carta' (1215) was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government are not above the law.
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 12:35AM by extremekc
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TIL the boom in mathematics during the 17th and 18th centuries in the Western world is correlated with the development of artillery and the increasing need for military professionals, especially artillerists, to be skilled in mathematics
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 12:21AM by Able_Road4115
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TIL that Samuel L. Jackson agreed to star in "Snakes on a Plane", and then the producers tried to change the noscript but didn't because Jackson agreed to do the film because of the noscript.
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 06:51AM by Claire-p-ham
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TIL during the siege of Leningrad, scientists working at the world’s largest collection of seeds protected the seeds from the threats of the cold, the hungry residents of the besieged city, rats, and their own hunger. Twenty-eight of the botanists died during the siege, protecting their collection.
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Submitted August 27, 2024 at 10:00AM by ChupdiChachi
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