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TIL Etsy sold pills that supposedly allowed people to poop glitter

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X0mlD TIL the highest-ranking officer of the British Royal Navy at the start of World War 1, was a German prince named Louis of Battenberg, who was made to resign and later abandon his German dynastic titles due to anti-German sentiment in Britain
R78M1 TIL even though diamonds are the hardest material known to man, they can be smashed and shattered by a hammer because hardness only determines how scratch resistant something is, not how strong it is.
Z1a TIL that John Smith, before Jamestown, was a trader, pirate, slave, mercenary, knight and had won three duels. He had been to (at least) modern day Romania, Hungary, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Spain, North Africa, England and the Americas all by the age of 27.