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TIL That Ukraine once had the third largest Nuclear arsenal in the world (5000 warheads) before it voluntarily disposed of the nukes in 1996.

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WXG4 TIL that when Princess Diana was stripped of the title “Her Royal Highness,” a young Prince William told his mother “Don’t worry, Mummy, I will give it back to you one day when I am king.”
a8MAA TIL about English as She Is Spoke. Intended as a Portuguese-English translation guide, the author actually had no grasp of English. For help he used a Portuguese-French guide and then a French-English one. The resulting book is a hilarious trainwreck
OGgGa TIL honeybees engage in a “dance-debate frenzy” when looking for a new home. Scouts perform a dance in which movements/positions encode directions & vigor indicates quality of a site. Those with opposing views headbutt the dancer: “head-butting seems to be the honeybee signal for ‘shut up!’"
6jw7 TIL that the only reason that the United States has the same Stop Sign design as the rest of the world is because the UN adopted the USA standard. The US never signed the UN convention that made it standard.
Z86PG TIL: Beethoven loved his coffee so much that he had his own recipe. It consisted of 60 beans. Not 59, not 61, but precisely 60. He would drop them into a cup separately and sometimes do a second recount. He also had a special apparatus for preparing it.