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TIL: The King Cobra is not actually a Cobra and its name comes from it's propensity to eat other snakes, including Cobra

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ePMD TIL that the plans for turning Russia into a parliamentary democracy were completed one day before Alexander II was assassinated in 1881. He was supposed to present these to the Russian people in the next 48 hours. The first action of his more conservative son was to tear up those plans.
8ep1K TIL the prison Martha Stewart served time in is nicknamed Camp Cupcake due to it's cushy conditions that include no barbed wire and cottages instead of jail cells.
rVdw TIL the French flag has uneven proportions in naval use. The blue, white, and red sections are 30%, 33%, and 37%, respectively, to counteract the illusion of size mismatch created when the flag is flapping (flapping makes the section opposite the halyard, the red section in this case, seem smaller)
MegX7 TIL about Mark DeFriest, an autistic savant who was sentenced to 4 years in prison for 'stealing' his father's tools. Able to memorise and reproduce keys by looking at them, he's been imprisoned 36 years for multiple escapes.
woGpE TIL that when Hideki Tojo was given new dentures, the message ‘Remember Pearl Harbor’ had been secretly drilled into them