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TIL, an explorer named 7 mountains after his wife’s nipple

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j6kmE TIL that the movie Kingdom of Heaven Directors Cut was so long (3 hours and 14 minutes), that it had an overture at the beginning and a 3 min intermission in the middle of the film where you watch a photo of Balian sitting with his fellow Crusaders after a battle to a special musical score
KYymJ Today I learned that Yhprums law [Everything that can work, will work] is exact opposite to Murphy Law [Anything that can go wrong will go wrong]. Both literally and in meaning.
0LOM TIL that in 1589 John Stubbs was sentenced by Queen Elizabeth to have his hand severed for seditious writing, and before the axe fell, he cried out, “My calamity is at hand!” - thus becoming the only known victim of Elizabeth to incorporate a pun at his dismemberment. He then fainted.
VB1E8 TIL The Hershey’s Company and Hershey’s Creamery Company are two separate companies with no familial ties. The companies were both founded in Lancaster County in Pennsylvania around the same time, and have had multiple legal battles over the years.
mxKOy TIL the common swift has been documented to fly 10 months continuously,