TIL in 1986, a Yakuza member attempted to smuggle a hand grenade on a flight from Manila to Osaka. Whilst in the toilet, the pin on the grenade came out and the man panicked, leaving it behind. The explosion and resulting decompression injured 109 passengers, including the gangster

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TIL that on 10 December 1901, Wilhelm Röntgen received the first Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering X-rays. He refused to give a Nobel lecture, refused to patent the discovery, and even refused to name the rays after himself – yet many countries still call X-rays Röntgenstrahlen.

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TIL Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the shoulder of Orion, will end in a supernova explosion that will be bright enough to be seen during the day. The brightness will last several months but will not harm the earth. It should happen within 100,000 years.

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TIL that Edward VIII, who became king in 1936, broke a centuries-old British coin tradition – where each monarch’s portrait faced the opposite way to their predecessor – by insisting he face left like his father so his hair parting looked best; only a handful of coins were struck.

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TIL in 1986, a Yakuza member attempted to smuggle a hand grenade on a flight from Manila to Osaka. Whilst in the toilet, the pin on the grenade came out and the man panicked, leaving it behind. The explosion and resulting decompression injured 109 passengers, including the gangster

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TIL that on 10 December 1901, Wilhelm Röntgen received the first Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering X-rays. He refused to give a Nobel lecture, refused to patent the discovery, and even refused to name the rays after himself – yet many countries still call X-rays Röntgenstrahlen.

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TIL in 1986, a Yakuza member attempted to smuggle a hand grenade on a flight from Manila to Osaka. Whilst in the toilet, the pin on the grenade came out and the man panicked, leaving it behind. The explosion and resulting decompression injured 109 passengers, including the gangster

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TIL that on 10 December 1901, Wilhelm Röntgen received the first Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering X-rays. He refused to give a Nobel lecture, refused to patent the discovery, and even refused to name the rays after himself – yet many countries still call X-rays Röntgenstrahlen.

TIL Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the shoulder of Orion, will end in a supernova explosion that will be bright enough to be seen during the day. The brightness will last several months but will not harm the earth. It should happen within 100,000 years.

TIL that Edward VIII, who became king in 1936, broke a centuries-old British coin tradition – where each monarch’s portrait faced the opposite way to their predecessor – by insisting he face left like his father so his hair parting looked best; only a handful of coins were struck.

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TIL that on 10 December 1901, Wilhelm Röntgen received the first Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering X-rays. He refused to give a Nobel lecture, refused to patent the discovery, and even refused to name the rays after himself – yet many countries still call X-rays Röntgenstrahlen.