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TIL that the Queen can de-knight someone, the last person de-knighted was a financier who participated in a scheme to inflate the share price of Guinness

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YglG TIL Lord Nelson, one of the greatest British naval commanders of all time suffered from chronic sea sickness throughout his career.
1jPd TIL in 2016 thousands of people signed an online petition demanding that retired pornographic industry actress Mia Khalifa be named the ambassador to Saudi Arabia under the new American government
91vQ TIL that glass is transparent because of quantum mechanics, not due to the density of the particles. Basically since there are discrete energy states, if the photon can’t excite the electron up to the next orbital, it just falls back down and shoots the photon out with the same momentum as before.
epnKL TIL the infamous shock video "2 Girls 1 Cup" was originally sold as a DVD titled "Hungry B*tches". The "vomit" in the movie was just food the actors had chewed and spit-out without swallowing, and film's director has stated in court that the supposed excrement they consume was just ice cream.
0GlA TIL Phyllis Smith, who played Phyllis in The Office, used to be a cheerleader for the St. Louis Cardinals football team, and was a burlesque performer