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TIL Queen Elizabeth is not required to have a driver's license, among other special privileges

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6E9QZ TIL the Eric Clapton song "Tears in Heaven" was written for Clapton's four-year-old son who fell from a window of a 53rd-floor New York apartment in 1991. He doesn't sing it live because he doesn't feel the loss anymore and he doesn't want those feelings to come back.
WkL0d TIL the growing German city of Wuppertal needed a railway, but had nowhere to put it. A regular monorail was deemed unsuitable, and an experimental "Floating Monorail" system was selected and constructed through the city and above the river, and remains in popular use today after over 115 years.
E17Mo TIL of Kenichi Ito, a japanese athlete who holds the Guinness World Record for running 100 meters on all four limbs, setting a best time of 15.71 seconds.
Bry7d TIL Fred Phelps, the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, was excommunicated a few months before his death for having a 'change of heart' towards gay people
b9QG9 TIL In 1947 2,400 tons of the material responsible for the Beirut explosion(ammonium nitrate) exploded in Texas resulting in 500 people dead and a 15ft tidal wave.