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TIL of the Fieschi Letter from 1327, which claims that King Edward II was not murdered as always assumed but changed clothes with a servant, killed the gate-keeper where he was imprisoned and escaped to exile in Europe. The letter was rediscovered 500 years later.

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9w7ZX TIL R. Norris Williams survived the sinking of the Titanic clinging to an overturned lifeboat. The injuries to his legs were such the doctors aboard rescue ship suggested amputation. He refused and instead went on to recover his faculties and eventually winning the tennis Olympic gold medal in 1924.
5a5P TIL The word “nice” used to mean “simple and foolish” as well as “cowardly and effeminate.” It comes from the Latin “nescire,” meaning “to be ignorant.”
w1E8 TIL that mathematician John Edmund Kerrich passed his time in Nazi captivity by flipping a coin 10,000 times. The total percentage of heads and tails flips varied wildly at first but gradually converged around 50/50, providing a demonstration of the Law of Large Numbers.
E1Law Today I learned Buffalo is a complete sentence, no matter how many times it is in a sentence, from 1 to infinity....
OGBy7 TIL Scientists have discovered the phenomenon of sound on the surface of the sun. Bubbles, the size of Texas cover the sun’s surface. The rise and fall movement of granules produces the sound waves, which cause the sun to sound like a drum every five minutes.