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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.

16vxr TIL that Freddie Mercury was supposed to sing a Christmas power-ballad as the theme song for “Santa Claus: The Movie” (1985), and he apparently even recorded a demo, but he pulled out of the film as his Queen bandmates had already committed to the “Highlander”soundtrack instead.
j4Rv TIL that when filming the movie Titanic they only built the port side of the ship. Scenes showing the starboard side were flipped in post production. As a result of this everything on the starboard side of the ship, from lettering to the buttons on costumes, had to be backwards during filming.
wLYNP TIL after he ‘killed’ Sherlock in The Final Problem (1893), readers got upset and relentlessly pressured Conan Doyle to resurrect the character. In 1901 Doyle released The Hound of the Baskervilles in a bid to pacify, and finally in 1903 he resurrected Holmes in the The Adventure of the Empty House.
XERxk TIL: Godzilla has the most number of sequels of any movie with 29 sequels
R5gM4 TIL of Charles Hatfield “The Rainmaker” who made a fortune through contracts with cities in the early 20th century to make it rain. He was sued as the reason for the devastating flood of San Diego in 1916