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8aLNV TIL that in September 1332 Edward Balliol, pretender to the Scottish throne, was attacked in the night by Scots rebels and narrowly escaped by riding bareback, naked from the waist down, all the way from Annan to Carlisle (about 18 miles).
neaDW TIL that the U.S. navy's most advanced, $4.4 billion stealth destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, was commanded by captain James Kirk
e0LxL TIL prior to the Segway being unveiled in 2001 there were months of hype and fanciful predictions. Steve Jobs predicted future cities would be designed around it and others claimed it would be the most important invention since the computer. There was even speculation it was a teleportation pod.
1y58 TIL A man ate 425 pennies containing over 1kg of Zinc and died due to gastrointestinal bacterial and fungal sepsis (infection).
j6jZv TIL that termites are closely related to cockroaches, not ants, and their similar social structure is an instance of convergent evolution