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TIL the oldest object in England’s Crown Jewels is a spoon

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GApag TIL Harriet Mordaunt after being convicted of adultery with Prince Edward of wales (King Edward VII), her father intervened with the courts that no impropriety had happened so she was deemed insane and spent the rest of her life in various asylums.
g4BW TIL a team at Nike created a pair of sneakers inspired by the ‘Heaven’s Gate’ UFO cult (who wore Nike Decades when they killed themselves). They never made it into stores.
6E1GX TIL that Nazi Germany conceived of a weapon called the "Sun Gun", which would have been a giant mirror in outer space that used concentrated sunlight to destroy entire cities.
ne5LW TIL The house band in The Muppet Show was called Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
QNoBa TIL that weeping willows, and almost all other weeping trees, are cultivars. Humans propagated mutated trees for their beauty. There are no true species of weeping tree; they are all growth forms of upright trees.