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TIL: The Coconut Monk was a pacifist mystic who founded the Coconut Religion in Vietnam. He lived on an island, meditated in a palm tree for hours every day, had a cat and mouse as his companions, made shards of bombs into a gong, and went to prison for his opposition to the Vietnam War.

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ZpElY TIL Prosecutors at the trial of Andreas Hofer, leader of the Tyrolean Rebellion against Napoleon's forces in 1809, were struggling with deciding on how to sentence him until they received a note from Napoleon's viceroy: it said "give him a fair trial, then shoot him"
KYZ8Q TIL that Sirius B, the smaller star of the Sirius binary system, has a little more mass than the Sun while being slightly smaller than the Earth.
OGArX TIL that it was once proposed to bury nuclear waste at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, with the theory that tectonic plate subduction would eventually push it down into the Earth's mantle
DQOZg TIL Sir Ridley Scott was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for his contributions to British cinema and, in 2024, was appointed a Knight Grand Cross by King Charles III, the highest rank of knighthood.
K179 TIL that the “laugh tracks” heard in American sitcoms from the late 50s to the early 70s were mostly recorded and edited by one company: Northridge Electronics, owned by sound engineer Charley Douglass and his family.