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TIL: Internet joke ‘Boaty McBoatface’ was commemorated on a 50p coin

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rRV1 TIL David Bowie refused the honor of being knighted, saying “I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that. I seriously don’t know what it’s for. It’s not what I spent my life working for.”
R50O4 [TIL] that there is an Herbicide that will turn Male Frogs into Female Frogs
Yp6kW TIL in Germany in 2001, Armin Meiwes (AKA The Master Butcher) and his volunteer murder victim jointly attempted to eat the victim's severed penis. He then killed and ate a large amount of the volunteer’s flesh. His first trial sentence was only 8 yrs 6 mo (later increased to life).
pPbO TIL a surgeon was able to keep a chicken’s heart tissue alive for over 20 years without it being attached to a body, deeming the cells, “immortal.”
VBGDm TIL Dragon Kings were mythical beings from China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam that controlled the rain from their underwater crystal palaces. Although they commanded legions of sea creatures as servants and soldiers, they were not all-powerful and still answered to the gods