› added 4 years ago

96

TIL an heir presumptive is a person first in the line of succession, but who can be displaced by the birth of another. An heir apparent cannot be displaced.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

vGyj TIL Germany just finished paying off their WWI reparations debt in October 2010
e070n TIL Green Bell Peppers Are Just Unripe Versions Of Red Peppers
1BnO TIL Dolphins give each other names and will answer to it even when called by dolphins they don’t know.
ADKko TIL that the game WoW had virtual pandemic-like accident in which scientists actually tried to research people's reaction into epidemics.
N7EPQ TIL of the Byford Dolphin decompression incident, where a diver was forced through a 60cm (24 inch) opening by compressed air and violently dismembered. Additionally, it caused the "expulsion of all of the internal organs of his chest and abdomen"