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TIL that no Danish monarch has been coronated since 1849

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X0wk6 TIL that there is only one validated living man born before 1913, and only eight born before 1914.
5njP TIL in the 1960’s the USA planned to test deadly nerve gas (VX and Sarin) on 200 Australian soldiers by bombing a chosen site in a Queensland forest. The plan was eventually vetoed by Aus PM.
gMMpW A circumhorizontal arc often called a fire rainbow, is an optical phenomenon in which an ice halo forms by hexagonal, plate-shaped ice crystals in high-level cirrus clouds. The halo is so large that the arc appears parallel to the horizon, hence the name. When the sun is very high in the sky, sunlight entering flat, hexagon-shaped ice crystals get split into individual colours just like in a prism.
oB7D7 TIL that during the Russo-Japanese war, a lieutenant from Montenegro beat a samurai in a swordfight.
yQJ6w TIL the Jane Fonda story of betraying American POWs is false. Video of one of the POWs refuting the claim in article.