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TIL Queen Elizabeth II is the only living head of state to have served in World War II

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rNO9o TIL: To "protect the truth," a woman recorded hundreds of thousands of hours of TV news between 1977 and 2012. Her archives grew to about 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes stacked in her home and apartments she rented to store them. Upon her death, the Internet Archive agreed to digitize the volumes.
d8ZZ9 TIL at least once a day, your immune system destroys a cell that could have become a cancer cell if it lived
VMw0Z TIL that in 1923, Frank Hayes became the first ever jockey to win a horse race despite being dead. He died from a heart attack mid-race but somehow his body stayed strapped onto the horse and he crossed the finish line in first place, beating 20-1 odds.
8eRpb TIL there is a village in Indonesia that has been wiped out due to a mud volcano which humans started
x4W5 TIL the bassist of 1970’s rock band Iron Butterfly developed missile guidance systems and software based digital video compression, was rumored to have disappeared in time travel attempt.