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TIL When William The Conqueror of England died, the body exploded when they tried to stuff him into the too-small stone coffin.

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4RRb TIL during the Cuban missile crisis a Soviet Submarine came under attack from depth charges, the captain assumed WW3 had started and prepared to launch a nuclear weapon, his executive officer overruled him. It turned out the depth charges were training rounds being used to signal them to surface.
l79MK TIL “That’s Crazy”: Why You Might Want to Rethink That Word in Your Vocabulary - Penn Medicine
kOZX4 TIL that is 2011, Saudi Arabia detained an Israeli vulture on suspicion of spying after it was discovered with a GPS transmitter attached to it.
P9dJ TIL that the Australian Classification Board has the power to ban small breasted pornography
4XZlb TIL why the states of Arkansas and Kansas are pronounced differently.