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TIL that King Baudouin of Belgium was declared 'unable to reign' for one day only at his own request, so that he didn't have to give his Royal Assent to a law.

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6EEEl TIL that Carl Haber created a machine that can read the surface of very old audio recordings and reproduce them without anything having to touch them; using the same type of technology that was used to see the Higgs boson particle.
61XZ TIL in 1997, there was an episode of Goosebumps called “Click.” In it, a kid gets a universal remote, uses it to pause his sister, change the color of his fish, fast forward through time, etc. 9 years later, Adam Sandler starred in a movie of the same name with a similar premise.
Y71P TIL that Queen Elizabeth still keeps a diamond stolen from India in her crown and it’s one of the largest diamonds in the world
nMOo TIL that there is no scientific basis for the Kübler-Ross “DABDA” model, aka the 5 stages of grief. The author herself insisted the stages didn’t all happen and not in any order. The model was embraced in pop culture because humans are naturally predisposed to explanations that tell a simple story.
G7n7 TIL that sociologist Diana C. Mutz discovered in her 2006 book Hearing the Other Side, those with the highest levels of education had the lowest exposure to people with conflicting points of view, while those who have not graduated from high school can claim the most diverse discussion mates.’