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TIL that in the 1760s, an imposter named Šćepan arrived in Montenegro claiming to be the deceased Russian tsar Peter III. Convincing the local people, Šćepan was shortly after proclaimed as the country's ruler, becoming the first and only "tsar" of Montenegro.

225 upvotes • Kurma-the-Turtle

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TIL in 1985, the French President François Mitterrand authorized a state-sponsored terror attack on New Zealand soil, killing a Dutch citizen.

225 upvotes • doopityWoop22

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TIL Door knobs that are made out of brass can disinfect itself in about 8 hours.

224 upvotes • Flirtyynadia02

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TIL about Mary Anning, whom when she was 15 months old in the year 1800, she survived a lightning strike that killed the 3 women watching over her. She was completely fine and went on to be a well known palaeontologist.

222 upvotes • kitty-reads

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TIL The song "Happy Days Are Here Again" was recorded on the same day that the stock market crashed in 1929.

221 upvotes • doopityWoop22

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TIL the typical loss on reselling a diamond is between 25% and 50% of its original purchase price, and even less as a percentage of appraisal value.

220 upvotes • Pred1949

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TIL Nellie Bly, the journalist who went undercover as a patient to investigate a mental health asylum, was also the same person to first travel the world in under 80 days

217 upvotes • charmer143

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TIL the longest last name in the world was that of a German man whose last name was 40 letters long!

213 upvotes • ForgeryZsixfour

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TIL: Sir Edward Grey, who famously said at the beginning of WWI "The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime" went almost blind during the war.

210 upvotes • Bamboozle_

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TIL there is at least one known occasion in Ancient Athens where a whole six thousand jurors sat together to judge a single case

209 upvotes • gullydon

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
TIL that in the 1760s, an imposter named Šćepan arrived in Montenegro claiming to be the deceased Russian tsar Peter III. Convincing the local people, Šćepan was shortly after proclaimed as the country's ruler, becoming the first and only "tsar" of Montenegro.	225	Kurma-the-Turtle
TIL in 1985, the French President François Mitterrand authorized a state-sponsored terror attack on New Zealand soil, killing a Dutch citizen.	225	doopityWoop22
TIL Door knobs that are made out of brass can disinfect itself in about 8 hours.	224	Flirtyynadia02
TIL about Mary Anning, whom when she was 15 months old in the year 1800, she survived a lightning strike that killed the 3 women watching over her. She was completely fine and went on to be a well known palaeontologist.	222	kitty-reads
TIL The song "Happy Days Are Here Again" was recorded on the same day that the stock market crashed in 1929.	221	doopityWoop22
TIL the typical loss on reselling a diamond is between 25% and 50% of its original purchase price, and even less as a percentage of appraisal value.	220	Pred1949
TIL Nellie Bly, the journalist who went undercover as a patient to investigate a mental health asylum, was also the same person to first travel the world in under 80 days	217	charmer143
TIL the longest last name in the world was that of a German man whose last name was 40 letters long!	213	ForgeryZsixfour
TIL: Sir Edward Grey, who famously said at the beginning of WWI "The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime" went almost blind during the war.	210	Bamboozle_
TIL there is at least one known occasion in Ancient Athens where a whole six thousand jurors sat together to judge a single case	209	gullydon