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TIL The Japanese created a pot that can stir itself with the inertia from heated foods

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MeQ8K TIL 'Angel' by Sarah McLachlan (the song famously used for the ASPCA animal cruelty PSA's) is actually about the fatal overdose of Smashing Pumpkins keyboardist Jonathan Melvoin.
4vYo TIL The Queen of England still maintains an official “champion” to fight on her behalf in duels.
9wd5m TIL: In Sweden there’s a tradition to watch a Donald Duck’s Christmas special since 1959
N7ObQ TIL that in smaller bomb blasts such as suicide bombings only 6% of people on average die from shrapnel wounds, the real danger is blast overpressure, which will rapture lungs. If you have time, you’re actually best off to not hold your breath, but to open your mouth, breathing in small intervals.
rRgG0 TIL King Richard Lionheart had more than two thousand Muslim prisoners of war from the captured city of Acre beheaded in front of the Ayyubid armies of sultan Saladin on 20 August 1191.