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TIL An English Man was fined for pretending to be a ghost in Portsmouth cemetery in 2014

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beZE TIL The notion that ‘dude’ may have been derived as translating the Swahili word 'dude’ as “a thing of which you don’t know or have forgotten the name”.Purportedly, the locals described early missionaries to Africa as “dude”.
4XwOJ TIL that Queen Elizabeths grandfather, King George V, was euthanized by his physician. The physician wrote in his journal that he euthanized the King so that his death would be announced in the morning newspapers, rather than the "less appropriate evening journals".
1pv4 TIL that one teaspoon of the bacterium C. botulinum, properly distributed, could kill every single human being in the US.
6EkKJ TIL that Napoleon was once interested in considering a submarine as a weapon in his military arsenal to combat ships. When it came time to look at the Nautilus, designed by American inventor Robert Fulton, Napoleon decided that Fulton was a swindler and a charlatan after learning the vessel leaked.
XvAP TIL calling a policeman an “antfucker” is not sufficiently insulting for prosecution, Dutch high court decides.