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TIL in 1487, a young working class boy claimed to be Edward Plantagenet, heir to the throne of England. He was crowned 'King Edward VI' in Ireland and led a failed rebellion against Henry VII. Because of his young age, he was pardoned and employed in the royal kitchen. His real name is unknown.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 03:07AM by sidvicarious
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TIL Aspartame was discovered by accident in 1965 by James M. Schlatter while researching anti-ulcer drugs. Schlatter was synthesizing the intermediate tetrapeptide, when he accidentally licked his finger to turn a page, and tasted an intense sweetness.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 04:24AM by Koiboi26
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TIL Iceland has never won a Winter Olympic medal
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 05:56AM by Embarrassed_Map1112
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TIL Britain’s youngest female killer committed her first murder at age 10 in 1968, a day before her 11th birthday, left notes about the crime at a nursery she vandalised (with a friend) the next day and was only arrested after her second murder two months later.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 05:29AM by Some-Body-Else
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TIL that humans shed roughly 30,000 to 40,000 skin cells every minute, which means in just one day, a single person can lose roughly 43-58 million skin cells. A surprising portion of household dust is actually made up of these tiny flakes of skin, so the dust bunnies under your bed are partly… you.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 08:36AM by Witty_Mode9296
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Biology Insights
How Many Skin Cells Are Shed Per Minute?
Discover the continuous process of skin renewal and how millions of cells are shed daily to maintain your body’s protective barrier.
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TIL United States Agency for International Development (USAID) saved an estimated 91 million lives from 2001 to 2021
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 02:37PM by Not_so_ghetto
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TIL in 2005 the Wisconsin owners of a missing cat received a call informing them that their cat had ended up in France and would be coming home soon. Their cat had wandered into a container of paper bales inside a nearby paper company, which went by truck to Chicago before being shipped to Europe.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 04:17PM by tyrion2024
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NBC News
Stowaway cat flies business class back home
Emily the cat is back — after flying home in the lap of luxury.
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TIL Charles Dickens said of the Bayeux Tapestry, "It is certainly the work of amateurs; very feeble amateurs at the beginning and very heedless some of them too."
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 03:42PM by FartOfGenius
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TIL the majority owner of Bose Corporation is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 03:54PM by backrowejoe
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TIL Boban Marjanovic had the NBA’s largest hands, measuring 10.75 inches in length and spanning 12 inches (as compared to Shaquille O’Neal’s 10.25/12 inches).
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 04:37PM by RedditIsAGranfaloon
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ClutchPoints
The biggest hands in NBA history
Which players have the biggest hands in NBA history? In this piece, we take a look at who they are, headlined by a familiar face.
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TIL George RR Martin bought the first ticket to the first Comic Con in 1964.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 06:15PM by Wazula23
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TIL there is a law that prohibits people in Thailand from owning more than 120 unapproved playing cards.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 05:53PM by Physical_Hamster_118
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TIL that in 1896, 2 physicists discovered radioactivity by accident when he left uranium salts in a drawer and found they fogged photographic plates in complete darkness, showing that atoms could emit energy on their own.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 05:44PM by One_Needleworker5218
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American Physical Society
March 1, 1896: Henri Becquerel Discovers Radioactivity
In one of the most well-known accidental discoveries in the history of physics, on an overcast day in March 1896, French physicist Henri Becquerel opened a drawer and discovered spontaneous radioactivity.
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TIL about the Boötes Void, an enormous, nearly empty region of space 330 million light-years in diameter. It is so desolate that if the Milky Way had been in its center, we wouldn't have known other galaxies existed until the 1960s.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 08:21PM by adpablito
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BBC Sky at Night
There's an enormous void of nothingness in our Universe. And scientists found it by accident
The Boötes void spans an area 330 million lightyears across but contains very few galaxies, making it the largest void in the known Universe.
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TIL that the MV Doña Paz’s sinking was the deadliest maritime disaster that occurred outside of wartime, accounting for 4,385 deaths
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 05:51PM by pigeon-in-greggs
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TIL about Murc’s Law, the tendency in political journalism to attribute agency only to the Democratic Party, while treating Republican actions as inevitable or structurally determined
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 09:31PM by NickCostanza
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TIL that during the 1980s, Thailand’s massive humanitarian support for Cambodian refugees was also a deliberate military strategy. By placing refugee camps directly on the border, Thailand created a "human buffer zone" to deter a potential invasion by the Vietnamese-backed army.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 05:54PM by khmerelder
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TIL India has never won a Winter Olympic medal and only won 41 total Olympic medals.
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 09:27PM by Mr__JimLahey
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TIL by the late 16th century it was common for mounted knights to wield wheel-lock pistols while clad in armor
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Submitted February 27, 2026 at 09:08PM by croato87
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Warfare History Network
The Wheel Lock: Birth of the Combat Pistol
The revolutionary wheel lock facilitated the development of increasingly sophisticated pistols on the European battlefield.
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