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TIL the world's longest-reigning current monarch is also an absolute monarch. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has been ruling Brunei for 57 years. He's also the country's Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, Minister of Economy, Minister of Home Affairs, and Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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x69BD TIL during making of Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2, Arthur Morgan's actor Roger Clark was told that he had to do the horse lines again because "It’s a little too intimate. It sounds like you’re not talking to a horse". After hearing the recording back, the actor agreed to redo the lines.
WRDd TIL: Physicist Alan Sokal wrote a mock paper full of made up gibberish in the style of post-modernist philosophers and managed to get it published to prove that some philosophers are bullshitters.
nYaY TIL there is a species of jellyfish that is biologically immortal. It can return to its undeveloped state through a process known as"transdifferentiation", allowing it to de-age at will. It does this despite not having a brain!
yVPWe TIL of Jon-Erik Hexum, an actor who was fooling around with a gun between delays on a TV set in 1984. He jokingly raised the gun to his head and said “Can you believe this crap?” before pulling the trigger and blowing his skull open with the explosion of the blank at close range.
5YWrQ TIL that the phone system's three rising tones (Special Information Tone, or SIT) comes in 8 varieties that are similar but can be distinguished by electronic equipment. It was designed so equipment could identify the error, even without understanding the spoken message.