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TIL Wilhelm II received the Order of the Garter as a birthday present for his 18th birthday by his grandmother, Queen Victoria

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644W TIL That in 1967, medical researchers at a Vermont state prison conducted an experiment where they had inmates gain up to 25% of their body weight in return for early release. For some of the volunteers, it was impossible to reach their target weights, despite eating up to 10,000 calories a day.
7pMO TIL that (very) rough estimates suggest that Wikipedia contains about 4% of the extant sum of all human knowledge, with 5.6 million red links (and growing).
rR70W TIL: At least 167 species of bats are hunted around the world, including in US territories Samoa and Guam
x65X5 TIL Green Day bassist Mike Prichard adopted the stage name Mike Dirnt as "Dirnt" was originally a nickname that his friends from grade school gave him, as he constantly played "air bass/guitar" and made a "dirnt, dirnt, dirnt" noise while pretending to pluck the strings.
M7eVK TIL a renewable syngas fuel called wood gas was used during World War II in Sweden, France, and Denmark to power certain vehicles during fossil fuel shortages.