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TIL that Napoleon once gave an ornately decorated tiara (a crown) to the pope with 3345 precious jewels inlaid into it. This was actually intended to be an insult, as the tiara weighed 18 pounds and was too small to fit on a human head.

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rRQx0 TIL Sean Connery's 2000 movie "Finding Forrester" inspired the creation of YTMND, after its creator saw a trailer for the movie, in which Sean Connery says the line "You're the man now, dog!"
0dNp1 TIL of "sun outages" in days near the equinoxes, in which signals to or from geosynchronous communication satellites are drowned out by the radio noise blasting from the sun as the satellite or the earth from the satellite's POV moves slowly near it.
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WGyA TIL: During the parade of nations at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Greece always enters the stadium first due to its status as the birthplace of the Olympics.