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TIL King George V was euthanized/killed when injected with fatal doses of morphine and cocaine in his deathbed, so that the announcement was ''in the morning papers rather than the less appropriate evening journals.''

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XgBX TIL The family of China’s last imperial family live in obscurity and the niece of the last emperor went out of her way to marry a penniless husband descended from farmers to prove that she was part of the new China rather than the Imperial China
PYRO TIL Indian Companies are now outsourcing jobs back to America
NXxd8 TIL that it takes Sloths a whole month to digest a single leaf and they only poop once a week.
v1BnR TIL streets are almost always wet in movies. Wet pavement is photogenic and the water diffuses reflections and helps eliminate shadows caused by filming equipment and light sources.
KYAN4 TIL In the 1980s, DeCasper studied whether fetuses could hear mothers’ reading. In several months, infants were tested to choose recordings with different stories to listen to. Surprisingly, but most of children chose to listen to the stories that their mothers had read to them prenatally