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TIL the inventor of the smiley face only made $45.

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gR1A TIL When King Charles II of Navarra was sick, his doctor ordered him to be wrapped in linen and covered in brandy. Unfortunately, instead of cutting the last thread of linen with scissors, the nurse thought it’d be a great idea to burn it off, burning the King alive.
DQAOp TIL A 1965 study on social isolation in monkeys reported that while no monkeys died during the isolation, 1 of 6 monkeys isolated for 3 months refused to eat after release and died 5 days later. A 2nd animal refused to eat and would have died had they not resorted to forced feeding.
GJ41 TIL Excel has a maximum of 1,048,576 rows of and 16,384 columns
LQYjm TIL Mark Matthews was the oldest living Buffalo Soldier, enlisting in 1910 and retiring in 1949 before becoming a security guard and retiring again in 1970. He died in 2005 at the age of 111.
9YAXX TIL that Samuel Colt, famous for producing the revolver,originally created underwater mines. They were highly effective, however John Quincy Adams scuttled the project as "not fair and honest warfare" and termed the Colt mine an "unchristian contraption." So Colt returned his attentions to guns.