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TIL the k in knight used to be pronounced. Same with the g.

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Mebva TIL that the model for Uncle Sam on the famous 1917 poster “I Want You” is the face of the painter, James Montgomery who used his own picture in order to avoid the need to find a model. For effect, he aged his portrait and added the goatee beard.
awXPN TIL The first toilet paper factory in the USSR was built in 1969, 8 years after they went to space.
P1lwO TIL that those who systematically take naps had a 37% lower coronary mortality.
1aYMO TIL two nuclear bombs were ejected over farms in North Carolina. Neither detonated. The military's investigation found that six of the seven steps required to detonate the bombs had been completed. There was only one trigger which had stopped the blast.
xVXlg TIL that before the British royal family was the Royal House of Windsor, they were the Royal House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. They changed the name to sound more British during WWI after a German air raid killed a class of schoolchildren in London, whipping up extreme anti-German sentiment in the UK.