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TIL that there is mathematical proof that we are all descendants of both royalty and a whole lot of nobodies.

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0dXgN TIL that at the funeral of his first wife, Kato Svanidze, Stalin said "This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity." During her burial, Stalin was so overcome with grief that he threw himself into her grave, and had to be dragged out.
VK7G TIL: No human has won a tournament standard chess game against a high spec computer since 2005.
9Yor TIL Matt Groening was once strip searched in airport security. As he was led away, a little boy laughed at him like Nelson from The Simpsons. Groening found the mockery the worst part of the incident
P1YRe TIL banned since 2008 for ‘unacceptable humanitarian consequences’, antipersonnel cluster bombs were first used by the Germans in WW2. In Iraq in 1991, 61,000 were dropped , containing 20 million submunitions
bbka TIL Tim Allen was caught with 1.43 lb of cocaine and squealed on his partners for a lighter sentence.