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TIL that 2 Korean students made a raft out of potato chip bags to prove they have too much air in them.

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69dwJ TIL King Henry II of France participated in a jousting tournament in 1559 to celebrate the marriage of his daughter. A lance splintered on his helmet and pushed wood into his eye and brain. He died ten days later. His death led to the decline of jousting in France.
0dN51 TIL The Moon recedes away from Earth at roughly the same speed as fingernail growth (3.78cm/year)
GAMJg TIL all humans alive on the planet today are related to, and descended from, a single individual who lived as recently as 3000 years ago, according to the most realistic scientific models to find the "Most Recent Common Ancestor"
awBdJ TIL that Cambridge University was founded in 1221 by professors from Oxford who had been run out of town by hostile townspeople