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TIL in 1881, Hawaiian King David Kalakaua traveled to the International Exposition, where he met Thomas Edison, who had filed a U.S. patent for his light bulb two years earlier. That visit inspired King Kalakaua to bring electricity to Honolulu just 4 years after it was installed in the White House.

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JYpZ4 TIL Edward de Vere (17th Earl of Oxford) did not go into voluntary exile for farting while bowing to the Queen - as commonly reported. He was exiled from court for impregnating one of the Queen's maid's of honour.
pp7Q TIL that the lionfish that are killing reefs across the Atlantic, killing countless fish and other wildlife, were traced back (via DNA) to 6 to 8 females, most likely released by owners that did not want (ironically) to kill their fish and so released them instead.
gM884 TIL Sexual imprinting occurs in falcons when raised by humans and if they need to breed, falconers will wear a special semen collecting hat and allow a male falcon to mate with their head. The falconers then 'court' a female imprinted falcon and impregnate her by injecting the semen into her cloaca.
x6gn0 TIL 46 years ago, on July 16, 1979, the Church Rock mill incident released 94 million gallons of nuclear waste & radioactive water into the Puerco river and Navajo nation. It is the third largest nuclear accident in history, behind only Fukushima and Chernobyl
NgEe TIL Humphrey Bogart’s Last Words: “I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”