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TIL that James VI, King of Scotland, was only thirteen months old when he succeeded to the throne. His reign in Scotland would be the longest of any Scottish monarch at 57 years and 246 days.

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mYRP TIL that during the filming of Rushmore, when Wes Anderson had to scrap a shot due to budgetary constraints, Bill Murray handed him a blank check to cover the cost.
WQe4 TIL the story about ‘Unsinkable Sam’ - a German WW2 ship cat who served on three different war ships. All three sank during the war and Sam survived…
p8PoZ TIL In Finland, city planners are known to visit parks immediately after the first snowfall, when the existing walking paths are not visible. People naturally choose desire paths, clearly marked by their footprints, which can be then used to guide the routing of new purpose-built paved paths.
GPgJ TIL they detected a particle whizzing about at 0.999 999 999 999 999 999 999 9951 times the speed of light - with energy 20 MILLION times more than the highest energy measured in radiation emitted by an extragalactic object! They call this the “Oh-My-God Particle”.
7L0M TIL that there are some prime numbers that are illegal. It turns out the binary representations of the prime numbers can describe some code that can be used to bypass the DRM on DVDs