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TIL King of Tonga, Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, was 195cm (6'5") and weighed 195kg (440lb). For his visits to Germany, the German government commissioned special chairs to support his weight, which he took home, considering them as state presents.

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N7oa8 TIL the first dinosaur skeleton discovered in the US was in 1858 in Haddonfield, N.J. After excavations were complete the dig was ignored, became a dump, and was lost until 1984 when a local Boy Scout decided his community project to qualify for Eagle Scout would be rediscovering the original site.
vP5p7 TIL that during his tenure as Senate majority leader, future US President Lyndon B. Johnson instructed his staff to dilute his scotch and soda to a greater extent than that of his guests. This was done in order to maintain a clear and focused state of mind.
epZPL TIL in 2012, a California high school student was directed to urinate in a bucket in a supply room closet after a teacher mistakenly believed that bathroom breaks were not permitted. In 2017, a court ordered the school district to pay the student $1.25 million.
0dabv TIL Beethoven was challenged to a piano duel by pianist Daniel Steibelt, who tried to bend the rules by handing Beethoven a Cello and Piano piece instead of just a Piano piece. Unfazed, Beethoven turned the score upside down, played it, then improvised on the inversed themes for half an hour.
l7Y8V TIL the cowboy bebop episode"wild horses" was initially banned from TV because it involved the space shuttle Columbia being involved in a disaster, which had actually happened a few months after is was written.