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TIL coats of arms do not belong to a “family” but instead belong to an individual. Coats of arms within a family may be very similar but need to be “differenced” from one person to the next.

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5Vejk TIL how Jeffrey Dahmer would torment guards in prison and threaten to cannibalize them
neoYb TIL Lego used to bury its used molds in the concrete foundations of buildings to prevent them being reused.
m1YOO TIL Following World War One Canada sent 799 body parts extracted from soldiers back to Canada to be part of a museum. The museum was never built, instead the organs became teaching aids at McGill University before being destroyed around 1960.
nr1o TIL In 2009 the University of Montreal tried to conduct a study into the views of men who never watched porn, it failed to find a single candidate.
d8pWd TIL Kepler-22b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the sun-like star Kepler-22. Located about 587 light-years from Earth, it's in the constellation of Cygnus. Discovered in Dec. 2011, it was the first known transiting planet to orbit within the habitable zone, meaning we could survive there...