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TIL Stephen Hawking’s son once added swear words to his dad’s voice synthesizer as a prank

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GYr9E TIL that in 2008, Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, refused to give his assent to a euthanasia bill passed by the Chamber of Deputies. In response, the Chamber amended the constitution so that bills no longer require the Duke's assent, rendering the Duke symbolic.
GV4N TIL During a major Civil War battle, both armies briefly stopped fighting to watch a fist fight between two opposing soldiers who had both taken cover in the same place.
x0Q0 TIL Chloroform isn’t good for kidnapping - it takes at least five minutes of inhaling an item soaked in chloroform to render a person unconscious
7rpGO TIL that the term Peanut Gallery came from Vaudeville days when the audience in cheapest and rowdiest seats in the theater often ate peanuts and sometimes threw them at the performers.
D10bJ TIL in 2001, a baby bear, lion, and tiger were rescued from a drug dealers house in Atlanta. They had bonded as a trio and remained friends for over 15 years. Usually as animals grow older, they grow apart from other species, but these three remained close and even lived in the same habitat.