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TIL in the early 1900’s, King Edward VII of Wales was too fat to button the bottom button on his suit. Out of respect all his subjects did the same, and the tradition of never using the bottom button remains to this day.

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R7kAj TIL that after Prussia had it’s army limited to 42,000 men, the King of Prussia enrolled that number of permitted men for a year, then dismissed them and enrolled another group of the same size for the next year, and so on, eventually resulting in having an army of 420,000 trained men
nePxb TIL Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in extracting a complete human genome from a thousands-of-years old "chewing gum."
N7NRE TIL Most cyclists can achieve 10-12 mph average very quickly with limited training and Tour de France riders achieve 25 miles per hour over 125 miles, but many cyclists never get to an average over 13-15 mph
VMGdZ TIL Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright was trained on trombone and saxophone, as well as being self-taught on guitar, piano and trumpet.
YppLZ TIL that not only is Surya Bonaly the only female ice skater to land a backflip at the Olympics, she's the only skater - period - to perform a splits during and land on one skate