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TIL that despite the popularity of the legend of King Arthur, no English monarch from 1066 onwards ever took the name after coronation

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0vYA TIL that Tommy Chong was the cell mate of Jordan Belfort (“The Wolf of Wall Street”) and encouraged Belfort to publish his autobiography.
Ra5Q TIL Jim Morrison predicted the coming of hip-hop and electronic style music
d8Lgj TIL 2 billion years a natural nuclear reactor existed in Gabon, and it is the only natural reactor we know the existence of today
XnOX TIL that juries can legally vote “Not Guilty” if they don’t agree with the morality of the law being applied to the defendant, but many judges refuse to let the jury know about this power as they believe morality is too complex for the average person to judge.
l7jL5 TIL when people are asked to pick a “random number between 1 and 100,” the most common answer is 37