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TIL that Papua New Guinea still recognizes the British monarch as their ceremonial head of state.

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4Xk8J TIL that Tom Waits won a lawsuit against Audi when Audi used a song similar to Waits's "Innocent When You Dream" sung by Waits imitating singer. Waits had previously won a lawsuit against Frito-Lay for a similar commercial. Waits donated his settlement money to charity.
e0LLD TIL the unit of speed the knot, used extensively throughout the world in aviation, weather, and nautical contexts, comes from literal knots of the "common log" device. This 17th century device was a coil of rope with uniformly spaced knots, attached to a piece of wood shaped like a slice of pie.
rRLY0 TIL that d-Tartaric Acid is the opposite of D-Tartaric Acid, so that if you see D-TARTARIC ACID, you have no clue which enantiomer is referenced.
eb75 TIL the EU commission has an alphabetised list of myths about the EU, from the British press, followed by full explanations of what really happened.
O5Jg TIL Timothy Cole, while always maintaining his innocence despite an offer for a shorter sentence, died 14 years into a 25 year sentence for a rape DNA tests later showed he did not commit