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TIL: Polonium-210 in tobacco contributes to many of the cases of lung cancer worldwide

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x6XR7 TIL that King Charles III is not the first British royal to assume that name. Charles Edward Stuart, Jacobite pretender to the throne and grandson of King James II of England, was known as Charles III by his supporters.
8ZVP TIL when the US Navy refused to cooperate during the filming of the movie Crimson Tide, filmmakers waited outside Pearl Harbor for a submarine to head to sea and chased it with a boat and helicopter to get the shot of it submerging.
V6DD TIL in 1996 a man named Larry Rutman hit himself in the head with a boomerang. He successfully sued himself for US$ 300,000, with the entire payout coming from his insurance
mxP6P TIL that King Cobra is not a Cobra.
yQD4e TIL that the reason cold water after mint gum makes your mouth colder because the menthol in gum is a cooling agent.