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TIL that the King of Hearts is the only king without a mustache, which is part of the reason he's often referred to as the "Suicide King."

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KOw9a TIL a fundamental limit exists on the amount of information that can be stored in a given space: about 10^69 bits per square meter. Regardless of technological advancement, any attempt to condense information further will cause the storage medium to collapse into a black hole.
N71YN TIL when Apollo 11 landed on the moon, they had about 15 seconds of fuel left.
6oBY TIL that the British Royal Navy (at substantial cost) established a fleet of ships known as the ‘West Africa Squadron’ which would patrol the west coast of Africa, capturing slave ships. This fleet is estimated to have captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 African slaves between 1808 & 1860.
781Zp TIL that there is a small island in Florida that acts as a nature preserve, for monkeys.
oR4LY TIL Noel Gallagher wrote the Oasis song 'Live Forever' after being offended by Kurt Cobain and the Nirvana song 'I Hate Myself and Want to Die'