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TIL that the Seven Kingdoms from Game of Thrones are based on a real period of British History called the “Heptarchy”

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v77x TIL in 2013, a Jägermeister-sponsored party went awry, when the staff threw liquid nitrogen into the pool to create smoke. The nitrogen displaced oxygen, poisoning the people around. 9 partygoers were hospitalized, including one who fell into a coma.
K5nE TIL that james earl jones once traveled across the us and used his legendary darth vader voice to talk to truck drivers on his cb radio .
7QDL TIL Survivors in the USS West Virginia during the bombing of Pearl Harbor survived for another 16 days after the event, trapped in the ship, until they died
e0YY6 TIL some animals can be made from just one parent. For example, the Komodo dragon, only has a mother. Asexual reproduction, the most primitive method of reproduction, involves a single parent and produces a clone, an organism that is genetically identical to the parent.
VMww0 TIL that many countries used "Immurement" as a form of punishment, where the victim was locked in a box and left to starve to death. The latest usage was in 1914, where a Mongolian woman left in a wooden crate died of dehydration.