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TIL that there exists a whole range of chemical structures designed to resemble little humans

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Oob57 TIL about Owain Glyndŵr, the last native Welsh to hold the title Prince of Wales. Owain was the leader of a fierce and long-running war of independence. Despite enormous rewards being offered, he was neither captured nor betrayed, ignored royal pardons and vanished after 1412.
j6Qnj TIL 60,000 attended Carmen Miranda’s memorial and over 500,000 joined her funeral procession.
xvbB TIL a 24 year old made it to #5 on his national charts with a song recorded on a four-track in his bedroom. He opened for Blur the same year, and then died six months later.
NLYb TIL that there is a place in the Pacific Ocean where Russian satellites used to crash that is called the spacecraft cemetery. The famous Mir space station crashed in this area in 2001.
0w69p TIL the man who first created a Bureau of Investigation within the US Department of Justice, which would later become the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was a nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte.