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TIL Prince William will be the first English king (>50% English ancestry) of the UK/England since 1066. Normandies to Plantagenets were French, Tudors were Welsh, Stuarts were Scots, Hanovers to Windsors were Germans, QE2 is half-Scottish, and Charles is half-Greek.

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DQKpD TIL that the movie character Raymond from the Academy Award winning movie Rain man was based on real life savant, Kim Peek. He could simultaneously read the left side and right side pages of a book at the same time and had complete memory of over 12,000 books.
VDM8 TIL two MIT grads are designing a nuclear power plant that can use nuclear waste as a source of fuel, produce 75 times more energy per ton of fuel, and utilize 96% of supplied fuel, vs only 4% used with traditional designs. It will also be virtually accident proof and cheap to build.
WkgX TIL there is a website that plays rain and thunderstorm ambiance should you so desire it…
m1m9P TIL that most scissors are suited for righties and tend to fold up paper rather than cut it when used by lefties.
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