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TIL that Sunandha Kumariratana, the Queen of Thailand, drowned while her subjects watched because they were forbidden to touch her.

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b94YE TIL nearly 6% of Americans are millionaires. Many live near what have been called ‘wealth-building engines,’ places that have technology, finance and defense. Not one area in the middle of the country make the list.
16RDV TIL Benjamin Martin designed and built a pocket microscope in 1738. This design became very popular and was later copied throughout Europe, known as drum microscope
66g8 TIL the Samurai wore a cloak that inflated when the wearer was riding a horse, which protected him from incoming arrows from behind.
l7RpG TIL of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Cup, a trophy for the predecessor organisation to the NFL, awarded just once in 1920 before being lost. A replacement trophy was commissioned 13 years later, before also disappearing after 1967.
NXARJ TIL South Korean support for Korean Reunification has been decreasing over the years. In the 1990s, over 80% of people in government polls viewed reunification as essential. By 2011 that number had dropped to 56%. In 2017, 72.1% of South Koreans in their 20s viewed reunification as unnecessary.