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TIL that Queen Elizabeth II had two severely disabled first cousins who were publicly pronounced dead in 1940 and 1961 respectively, but actually lived in a care home with no visits or support from the royal family until their actual deaths in 1986 and 2014.

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v1EAB TIL: That Melora Hardin, the actress that plays Jan Levinson-Gould on The Office, was originally cast to play Jennifer Parker in Back to the Future. When Eric Stolz was fired and Micheal J Fox was hired for the role, she was replaced because she was too tall for Fox.
NXjJM TIL that Indo-Europeans, the ancestors of almost all languages and cultures in Europe, Persia and India, had presences as far as near Peking, China.
XE06D You hear the phrase all the time when you’re working with computers, especially on customer service calls: “Please reboot your computer.” Why do we use the word reboot to mean “turn it off and on again”? It all goes back to tech history — and to one of the most revolutionary aspects of these computing machines.
wowOW TIL that, while an odd pair, philosopher's Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre were best friends. However, they split when Camus wrote "The Rebel" due to Sartre becoming angered by Camus's argument that absolute justice and absolute freedom couldn't coexist making violent revolution mostly pointless.
R5gp8 TIL Kokura was the main target for the "Fat Man" nuclear bomb, but on the morning of August 9, 1945, the city was obscured by morning fog. Because the order was to drop the bomb visually, the pilots diverted about 100 km south to Nagasaki, killing 35,000 people within seconds of its detonation.