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TIL that Elizabeth I inadvertently ruined the marriage of two of her nobles, George Talbot and Bess of Hardwick, by making them host the deposed Mary, Queen of Scots. The financial burden from hosting Mary and rumors of an affair between George and Mary eventually led to the couple’s estrangement
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TIL that on average, civilizations last 336 years
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TIL: The largest reciprocating engine in the world is the RT-flex96C, a turbocharged diesel engine designed by the Finnish manufacturer Wärtsilä. It is designed for large container ships. Its 14-cylinder version is 44 ft high, 87.2 ft long, weighs over 2,300 t, and produces 107,390 hp
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TIL that Jayne Mansfield's father died of a heart attack while she was in the car with him. She was 3 years old. Her daughter, Mariska Hargitay, was in the car accident that killed Mansfield. Mariska was also 3 years old at the time.
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TIL that between 2020 and 2023, there were over 500 orca attacks on boats around Spain, committed by as few as just 15 different orcas
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Til a parasitic mite, Varroa destructor, is killing bees and untreated hives are typically dead within 2-3 years
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TIL that in 1874, a doctor published a book made of arsenic-laced wallpaper samples to warn about the dangers of toxic pigments, but the book itself poisoned and killed some people who handled it.
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TIL People with depression use language differently. They use significantly more first person singular pronouns – such as “me”, “myself” and “I”. Researchers have reported that pronouns are actually more reliable in identifying depression than negative emotion words.
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TIL that between 1840 and 1930, a pod of killer whales helped whalers shepherd and kill baleen whales by herding them into a bay then swimming to the whalers to alert them of the target whales
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TIL about the Skoptsy, an 18th century Russian Christian sect. They were best known for practicing castration/mastectomies/FGM in accordance with their teachings against lust. The belief originated in a mistranslation of a biblical command as “castrate yourselves” rather than “be fruitful”.
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TIL of a controversial D&D exploit called the Peasant Railgun where players hire 2,280 peasants to stand in a line and use the Ready Action to pass a wooden pole down the line in one combat round, theoretically accelerating it to 1,900 mph and dealing 300d6 damage.
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TIL: Glitch is a Yiddish word derived from glitsh, for slippery place, and from glitshn, meaning to slide, or glide. It was initially used in the 40s by radio announcers to indicate on-air mistakes