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TIL: Of all the European royal crowns, only the British one actually sits on the head of a monarch. All other European monarchs, including even the Pope in his political capacity, have civil inaugurations rather than coronations.

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4GkN TIL that in Japan, a diver named Hiroyuki Arakawa and a sheepshead wrasse named Yoriko have been friends for over 25 years.
ADOMw TIL that English king Charles I believed black cats to bring good luck, so he adopted one. On the day it had died, he lamented that his good luck was gone. The next day, he was arrested for high treason and was later executed.
nejpY TIL of Jan Baalsrud, a Norwegian commando in WWII. The lone survivor of an ambush, he survived an avalanche, severe frostbite and snow blindness, having to amputate his own toes, and being relentlessly pursued by Germans for nine weeks before being whisked to safety in Sweden by locals.
l7MV5 TIL that Archimedes of the 3rd century BC calculated the universe’s diameter to be what is now 2-light years in astronomy and discovered the law of exponent while trying to name numbers that are significantly higher than 10,000^2 (myriad myriads)
PYglJ TIL that violence in Filipino karaoke bars has lead to owners specifically employing gay or effeminate men, or transwomen, who use humor to defuse conflicts between male patrons over women, since they are seen as neutral.