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TIL the legendary story of Lady Godiva riding naked on a horse was where the phrase “Peeping Tom” originated from.

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QxP6 TIL that Peter Cushing, who played the fearsome antagonist of Star Wars Episode IV, found the boots of his costume so uncomfortable he wore slippers and told George Lucas to avoid taking shots of his legs.
lZna TIL the township of Thierville, France suffered no losses in country’s last five wars: WW1, the Franco-Prussian War, WW2, the First Indochina War, and the Algerian War. All the soldiers who took part in these wars returned home.
x6elw TIL that Bulgarian scientist Victor Ninov fraudulently claimed to have discovered two new chemical elements (116 and 118) while working at Berkley. Later investigations found he had also falsified evidence for elements 110,111, and 112, but escaped consequence as real elements were soon found.
J1Bb8 TIL The nucli of multicellular fungi cells can migrate, if a fungus encounters something strange like a substance that can't be broken down, nuclei will concentrate in that area to try and find a mutation that can break it down, brute-forcing their DNA, seen also with consuming plastic and radiation
7kDb TIL that the 4th best supercomputer in the world simulated the equivalent of 1 second of human brain activity, but it took about 40 minutes.