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TIL that after analyzing Richard III's DNA, it was revealed that either the House of York or the House of Lancaster were the product of infidelity.

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4XEx6 TIL In 1947, after the price of a chocolate bar increased from 5 cents to 8 cents, 200 kids marched and protested on the capitol building in British Columbia, shutting down the government for a day. It is known as " The Candy Bar Strike"
wodXM TIL the Penan people in Malaysia have such a highly generous / egalitarian society that they have no word for 'thank you' because help is assumed and therefore doesn't require a 'thank you'.
0n4N TIL Ronald Reagan was 3,761 votes shy, in Minnesota, of winning every state in the 1984 Presidential Election.
6DjX TIL that L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, falsely claimed to have been a nuclear physicist. In reality, he flunked both high school and college, leaving after his sophomore year at George Washington University during which he failed a course of “Molecular and Atomic Physics.”
R75Qw TIL a boat is considered a ship if it weighs 500 tonnes or more. A more general distinction is that ships can carry boats but boats cannot carry ships.