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TIL that when Queen Elizabeth II dies, no comedy programming will air on the BBC for 12 days.

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4kp5b TIL of the California Genocide, the killing of thousands of indigenous peoples of CA by US government agents and private citizens in the 19th century. Between 1846 & 1873, it is estimated that non-Natives killed between 9,462 and 16,094 California Natives. Most of the deaths were village massacres.
LkGaQ TIL About Simo Häyhä, a Finnish Sniper during the Winter War. Despite not using a scope on his outdated rifle, he became the dealiest sniper in history. He was once shot in the head by an anti-tank rifle, but only fell into a coma after revenge. When he woke up, the Soviets retreated.
p85XQ TIL despite ancient Rome being one of the most powerful empires and using many modern financial techniques some of which are still being used today, Rome was a mainly agrarian economy with arelatively small GDP
nPdW TIL that the false-consensus effect or false-consensus bias is an attributional type of cognitive bias whereby people tend to overestimate the extent to which their opinions, beliefs, preferences, values, and habits are normal and typical of those of others
0wA7R TIL that in 17th-century Poland, wet bread mixed with spider webs was used to cure wounds. It may sound stupid, but it work, as the bread contained fungal spores, including penicillin and naturally produced antibiotic substances.