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TIL Ireland's Gaelic royal families were not all wiped out by the English. Many were exiled to contiental Europe were they intermarried with royals in countries such as France and Spain. Many of their descendants became leaders in their new homes including French President Patrice de MacMahon

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J1n14 TIL when US President McKinley was shot in Buffalo, the city's best surgeon Roswell Park, was operating on someone else in Niagra Falls. When they told him he was needed in Buffalo, he responded that he could not leave, even for the President of the United States. He was then told who had been shot.
6kgZ TIL that the picture of an angry cloud of sentient electricity that is commonly seen on transformers is named “Mr. Ouch”
xVOP0 TIL about Pumped-Storage Hydroelectricity, in which thousands of gallons of water are pumped to a reservoir at a higher elevation using off-peak electricity, then released to turn turbines and produce electricity at a later date. It's a non-chemical form of battery.
R59r8 TIL in 1975, there were 2 crude oil tanker spills on January 31st. The Corinthos Spill in the Delaware River and the Epic Colocotronis Spill in Puerto Rico dumped a combined 28.5 million gallons of oil into surrounding waters.
DQNYY TIL that at the 1992 Winter Olympics Tonya Harding figure skated to a song called "People Are Still Having Sex." The non-instrumental was a Billboard US dance chart #1 hit, featuring a narrator talking about the fact that people are still having sex.