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TIL Sweden is a monarchy with a current living king

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PYp7g TIL during a drill in 1943, the USS William D. Porter accidentally fired a torpedo at the USS Iowa which was carrying US President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the time. The entire crew was rumored to have been arrested when they returned to shore.
R76X6 TIL that when South Korea was upset with North Korea over nuclear testing they blasted K-pop music over the border to annoy them and included the boy band hit “Bang Bang Bang.”
ZpmQa TIL when an ancient Parisian cemetery was decommissioned in 1786, fat from the decomposing bodies was collected and turned into candles and soap
nMB9 TIL Mathematicians at London’s King’s College used statistical modeling in a study commissioned by Sky Movies to conclude that The Shining was the “perfect scary movie” due to a proper balance of various ingredients including shock value, suspense, gore and size of the cast
0PDj TIL in 1998 40% of antibiotics in the United States went to livestock. By 2011 that had risen to 80%.