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QN8ML TIL that Yuri Gagarin touched Queen Elizabeth II's leg to make sure she was not a doll during a visit to UK.
Ooro4 TIL Michael Jackson was $500 million in debt when he died. However since his death he's made a profit, being one of the highest earning dead celebrities in the world.
6ExDX TIL Winston Churchill was in New York on Black Friday, the crash of 1929, having invested (and lost) the royalties for a book he was writing. He wrote, "I expected to see pandemonium, but the spectacle that met my eyes was one of surprising calm and orderliness."