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TIL to his pique, but the merriment of his children, Winston Churchill found two of his cousins named on a list of arrested Nazi sympathisers

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4Xw6N TIL that during the Christmas of 1819, King George III - who by then was completely blind, increasingly deaf, had dementia, was in pain from rheumatism and suffering from another bout of insanity - spoke nonsense for 58 hours.
mwoy TIL: Steve Wynn bought a Picasso for 45 Million in 1997, accidentally put his elbow through it causing over $90,000 in damages. This story added value to the painting and was sold for 155 Million in 2013.
Mel5A TIL that there have been actual scientific studies comparing apples and oranges in order to prove that you can in fact compare apples and oranges. One such study conducted by a NASA researcher named Scott Sandford used infrared spectroscopy to analyze and compare the fruits.
b68o9 TIL the first top prize winner on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire never used any of his lifelines until the last question where he used the "Phone a Friend" lifeline. He phoned his father not to ask for help but to tell him that he was about to become a millionaire.
VMkXm TIL of William Rankin, a fighter pilot who survived ejecting into a thunderstorm. He encountered very low temperature, frostbite, massive wind and lightning, severe decompression, and nearly drowned from breathing in rain water. Overall, he was in the cloud for more than 40 minutes.