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TIL that during the state opening of parliament in 1845, the Duke of Argyll accidentally dropped the Imperial State Crown, causing £150 (23,000$ today) worth of damage. Of the accident, Queen Victoria wrote in her diary:" [The Crown] was all crushed and squashed, like a pudding that had set down."

Oo1Dg TIL about Posthumous Reproduction where you can “harvest” sperm from a dead person in order to reproduce
neLjo TIL that Maine, not Florida, is the closest US state to Africa.
R1Nw TIL: Nelly has sent two kids to college every year for the past 10 years.
d8jg8 TIL 90% of Earth's population lives in the northern hemisphere
MeBKm TIL that Kleenex was invented and intended as a paper filter for gas-masks during World-War I.