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TIL that the descendants of the Wittelsbach family, that reigned the Bavaria until 1918, still receive 14 million euros annually (www.castleholic.com)

Descendants of the Wittelsbach family, that reigned the Bavaria until 1918, still receive 14 million euros annually from a compensation fund that was established 100 years ago. The head of the family also has the right to live in Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich.

TIL that the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. (lemmy.world)

When Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, he did paint her eyebrows, but over time, they wore away due to cleaning and maintenance to the point where it’s no longer visible today.

TIL about the 1988 Camelford water pollution incident, the worst mass poisoning in British history (en.wikipedia.org)

tl;dr, water treatment authorities accidentally dumped a bunch of aluminum in the water, but told all their customers it was safe to drink before they knew what it was, but scientists and doctors are apparently still arguing over what effects aluminum exposure can have (see: “Aluminum and Alzheimer’s disease: after a century...

TIL that the vast majority of posts in TIL are created by a bot account. (lemm.ee)

TIL that the first computer programmer was a woman. Her name was Ada Lovelace. (www.britannica.com)

TIL Someone made a 10 hour long movie that's just paint drying to protest censorship by the British Board of Film Classification. The film was rated suitable for all ages. (m.imdb.com)

Edit: Note: it says Not Rated, that’s for the US. The UK rating is U.

TIL Michigan is the top cherry producing state (www.tastingtable.com)

TIL olive oil is safe at high heat (www.youtube.com)

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TIL There's a town in Spain that has an annual tomato fight; last year 130 tonnes of tomatoes were thrown by attendees (www.reuters.com)

TIL the first modern, non-Indigenous legal precedent explicitly considering a canoe a "vessel" didn't happen in Canada until 2018. (admiraltylaw.com)

Also, I mentally read the defence’s argument about “muscular power” in the voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer!

TIL the number of continents varies and do not follow a strict criteria (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL there wasn't a year 0 (www.timeanddate.com)

Year AD 1 directly followed year 1 BC, without the year count ever reaching zero.

TIL of Matilda Gage, the Women's suffragist who defied the US government. She is relatively unknown compared to other revolutionaries because she was too progressive for her time. (www.bbc.com)

TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content (en.wikipedia.org)

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