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TIL the coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire was created at the request of the Hampton Court in 1882. As they felt their collection of the European ones were incomplete without it.

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b6Xgp TIL: in an effort to catch a bug in Windows Task manager, a developer added his phone number with a message to call his home phone number, the message was left in the release version of windows, leading to multiple people from around the world ringing his home phone number to report the error.
691YQ TIL Princess Diana's Great (×14) Grandfather was a nobleman born in 1455 named John Spencer. He was also the Great (x13) Grandfather of Winston Churchill.
yQKDe TIL as a reaction to slipping behind in the space race, the United States Air Force developed a plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon. The main objective was to cause a nuclear explosion that would be visible from Earth, boosting the morale of the Amercian people.
bjOj TIL by using more pressure than found in earth’s core, scientists at Germany’s Bayerisches Geoinstitut made diamond gemstones from peanut butter. Scientist Dan Frost noted that the hydrogen that’s bonded to the peanut butter’s carbon makes the process messier and that the process is slow.
wLkb6 TIL that lobsters have bladders on either side of their heads, so they communicate by urinating at each other. If they want another lobster to know that they’re happy or sad or angry or interested in a relationship, they say it with pee!