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XEVAP TIL that Vera Lynn is still alive and well at the ripe old age of 102. She scored a number 1 album in 2014 making her the oldest person to top the charts and her last album was in 2017 and peaked at number 3. She's living proof that age really is just a number. March 20 is her b-day! 103!!
8eQ1G TIL Poltergeist, which came out in 1982, was rated PG. This is despite not just the movie fitting perfectly into the horror genre, but also many adult themes including the smoking of marijuana and a deep dive into the occult.
8rVG TIL only about half of Americans who go to college actually get a degree, making America’s completion rate worse than Slovakia
P1EYE TIL that towards the end of his life, George III's health had deteriorated so greatly that he was incapable of knowing or understanding that he was declared King of Hanover in 1814, or that his wife died in 1818.
Me8dW TIL that the great-great-grandson of Tsar Nicholas Romanoff I of Russia grew up to serve in the British Navy, participated in the Normandy invasions, and become an American folk artist