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TIL~2600 yrs ago in China, an ill king was predicted by a prophet that he won't live to eat the next harvest. When he was later presented with the new harvest and ready to eat it, he remembered the prediction and killed the seer, felt stomachache before eating, went to latrine, fell in and died.

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j6MRX TIL in the Ottoman tradition, the throne did not automatically pass to the eldest son. Rather, potential heirs were expected to fight it out. As soon as the sultan died, the princes were plunged into a race for the throne. Whichever brother won the throne would have the other brothers executed.
5Egr TIL that in 2013, trades were registered in Chicago within two milliseconds of a Federal Reserve announcement to raise interest rates. This was later proven to be insider trading, as that information would take three milliseconds to get to Chicago at the speed of light.
8KvV TIL Sture Bergwall, Sweden’s most notorious serial killer who was incarcerated after confessing to at least 30 murders and crimes such as rape and cannibal, was later found to have been a manipulative liar. He never actually killed a single person.
16lnW TIL about Harvey Balls, a type of visual shorthand for conveying qualitative information that is often used in rating systems
axly TIL: Kim Ung-Yong, the man with the highest IQ, who attended University at age 4, and worked for NASA as a teen, could not find work in Korea because he technically didn’t graduate Elementary School.