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TIL in 1283 King Edward I of England had the last Prince of Wales executed and started the custom of giving the title to his first born son instead.

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RKAa TIL There is a man who digs up antique denim left in old abandoned silver mines. When a miner got a new pair of work pants, he’d cut up the old ones and use them for lagging around pipes. Collectors pay thousands of dollars for jeans, jackets and even scraps of denim
R5rW9 TIL The Federal Reserve removes and shreds 5000+ tons of paper currency each year.
Br1Nr TIL there is currently no known way to use speech recognition successfully on a whispering person, as the characteristic spectral range needed to detect syllables and words is not given through the total absence of tone
699EY TIL that in bowling, the reason why three strikes in a row is called a turkey is because in the late 1700s-early 1800s, turkeys would be common prizes given to those who could bowl three strikes in a row during tournaments.
ElDp TIL the average person in 1900 would have been “intellectually disabled” by modern IQ norms