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TIL King Henry V of England died of dysentery in 1422, only two years after conquering France to occupy its throne

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jNo8M TIL There is no "Missing Link" in Human Evolution. The term "missing link" has fallen out of favor with biologists because it implies the evolutionary process is a linear phenomenon and that forms originate consecutively in a chain. Instead, the term Last Common Ancestor is preferred.
mxGRo TIL: Heraclitus, a pre-Socratic philosopher, deposited his book in the Artemisium which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
16x08 TIL about Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac. He was a French nobleman who fought for the Confederates in the American Civil War. When he died in 1913, he was the last surviving Confederate major-general.
D1ZOP TIL David Bowie was punched in the left eye as a teenager, leaving it permanently dilated. He later thanked his friend, George Underwood, for doing so, saying it gave him "a kind of mystique." This mystique helped enhance some of Bowie's most iconic images.
4kK1N TIL: In 2017, the "holographic" universe theory came back after a UK, Canadian, and Italian study provided the first observational evidence for the explanation. The theory is that our "3d" reality is contained in a 2D surface and that the entire universe is encoded like a 3D movie or a hologram.