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TIL There hasn’t been a decade since 1845 where an element HASN’T been discovered…

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YxDx TIL that when British warships enter the Thames they are required to present a barrel of rum to the Constable of the Tower (the man in command of the Tower of London) in the ‘Ceremony of the Constables Dues’.
bD7E TIL during his undergraduate years, Newton made college notes that detailed the movement of water from plants to leaves - 225 years before the natural phenomenon of transpiration was first widely proposed in 1895.
Eg0WV TIL: The display of diamonds in Hollywood films and songs is one of the most successful cases of product placement in marketing history. Diamonds were placed in several Hollywood films; including Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Diamonds Are Forever and in songs such as Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend.
X0wmk TIL that the Nanga Parbat is the only mountain taller than 8000 meters, whose maiden summit was done solo. The climber, Hermann Buhl, did so by taking methamphetamine and reaching the summit after a 19 hour long climb from his camp.
JEK1 TIL the famous windows XP desktop background “bliss” was only possible due to an infestation that killed all of the grapes that would have been in that field