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TIL all Presidents of the United States (except for Van Buren) are descendants of King John of England.

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16RxX TIL Kansas City isn't in Kansas at all but rather in Missouri. The town used to be called Kansas but soon after the city's incorporatation the territory of Kansas was established so they renamed the town Kansas City
R7R9w Let’s say you’re doing 100 mph in a car and suddenly a downed tree, stopped the car, or person appears in the road up ahead and you need to slam on the brakes. How much more dangerous is that situation than when you’re doing 70 mph? Your intuition might tell you that 100 mph is only 30% more than 70 mph. But as this video shows, the important factor in stopping a car (or what happens to the car when it collides with something else) does not speed but energy, which increases at the square of speed. In other words, going from 70 mph to 100 mph more than doubles your energy…and going from 55 to 100 more than triples it.
db9d TIL the first actor for the alcoholic Waco Kid in Blazing Saddles lost the role because he was an alcoholic
WkNAL TIL that the lost property office at Dublin airport has an unclaimed tombstone with the words: ‘You will always be remembered, never forgotten.’
aeGJ TIL when Hannibal Lecter said “I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti” it was a clue he was off his medications as none of those items can be consumed while on MAOIs, a drug given for various mental disorders