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TIL that BMW was founded by a son of the inventor of the four-stroke gasoline engine Nicolaus Otto

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8egLX TIL that in July 1982, a mentally disturbed man named Michael Fagan entered Buckingham Palace twice and set off alarms both times (that were cleared with little investigation). The first time he encountered a maid and ended up drinking a bottle of wine. The second time, he made it to the Queen.
lvJB TIL the last surviving veteran from World War I, Florence Green, passed away last year at age 110.
E1aGV TIL about the Mercury 13 - a group of women in the early 1960's that passed the same vigorous tests as male astronauts and was part of a privately funded project that aimed to send them to the moon
YpZWP TIL that it's illegal to die in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway) because dead bodies weren't decomposing properly because of how far north it is. If someone is dying, every effort will be made to ship them to the mainland.
LkbWm TIL Surgeons had to remove 78 forks & spoons from a women's stomach, who had been complaining about stomach pains