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TIL Queen Elizabeth is a Doctor Who fan

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VaWD TIL of Oliver Sipple, a gay marine who saved President Gerald Ford in an assassination attempt but was then publicly outed as gay, causing him to become estranged from his family, drink heavily, gain 300 pounds (140 kilograms), and finally die at the age of just 47.
VB08m TIL that the last Great Auk egg ever was accidentally cracked in the struggle to strangle its parents
wXe7 TIL vaginas are called “beavers” because in the 17th century, prostitutes would wear hair pieces on their vaginas made of beaver hide
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