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TIL that the village of Westward Ho! is the only place in the British Isles with an exclamation mark in its name

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M7K7a TIL, a man was wrongfully declared dead, so he attended his own funeral, tried to get arrested, tried to get elected and more. it took 19 years for him to be declared alive
mxYZR For his Lux Noctis series, Reuben Wu programmed a light-bearing drone (a 3DR Solo UAV carrying a Fiilex AL250 light) to follow specific paths around his subjects as he photographed them using long exposures. The results are a set of UFO-friendly vistas that feature monumental scenery illuminated in totally unnatural ways – like this shot of a rocky crest lit from above by a sci-fi halo.
x6EdB TIL that Benjamin Franklin's extra-marital son, William Franklin, was a staunch loyalist who was the last colonial governor of New Jersey. After a two year imprisonment ended via prisoner exchange, he directed loyalist forces in New York before fleeing to Britain at the end of the war.
6EMMX TIL Banach-Tarski Paradox: if you accept as true the Axiom of choice (i.e. from non-empty set you can always pick up a random element) then you could decompose a golden sphere into a finite number of pieces and, without any strecthing, reassemble these into two balls identical to the original one.
x60xw TIL that "tit for tat" is not just a saying, but also a highly effective strategy in conflict resolution, which involves being nice, forgiving, provocable, and clear. It won two "prisoner's dilemma" tournaments by simply cooperating first, then subsequently mirroring their opponent's previous move.