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TIL that the British royal family owns a stamp collection worth £100 million.

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RZd7 TIL According to Aristotle, a city of 100,000 is too numerous and “no longer a community”
M77lm TIL that lemons float while limes sink
epRp6 TIL in 2016, a Saudi princess was enraged after a plumber took photos of her bathroom. She made her bodyguard beat him up and then forced him to kiss her feet. She left France—this happened in her luxury apartment in Paris—and was tried in absentia. She received a 10-month suspended sentence.
R5vg1 TIL Switzerland constitutionally banned all monasteries and the Jesuits until 1973
6Ebdm TIL: Sir James Brooke was a British soldier and adventurer, who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo. Acquiring the title, "Sultanate of Sarawak" - following intervention in an uprising against the Sultan of Brunei. He ruled as the first White Rajah of Sarawak from 1841, until his death in 1868.