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TIL that King Henry the 8th’s dead body exploded in his coffin.

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8exWb TIL: Apple Watch sales in 2020 amounted to ~$30.6bn compared to the whole Swiss watch market exports of ~$16bn.
GAXb4 TIL that an assassination attempt made on James Bond in Casino Royale (1953), was based on a real such failed bomb attack on Franz Von Papen the Vice Chancellor of Germany. Papen survived because the trees he was around, took the blast impact.
NJkE TIL Scientists at a Radio Telescope spent over twenty years trying to figure out the source of some signal interference, turns out is was their staff room microwave