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TIL Queen Elizabeth II has been described as “addicted” to her golden-plated Wii console, and has expressed the wish to be a horse.

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dDwEr TIL in 1913 the US government held a 50th anniversary Gettysburg reunion for veterans from the Union and Confederacy and the 2 sides treated each other as brothers and not former enemies.
XEpOE TIL Steven Spielberg's carreer began when he was a boy scout, by making a nine-minute 8mm film entitled "The Last Gunfight" which earned him a photography merit badge.
PYaME TIL that in Star Wars Legends, Jar Jar Binks' father was named George R Binks. He was an adventurer and successful whaler but attempted suicide because of how annoying his son was.
Z8LPY TIL: After D-Day landings, French women having babies with German soldiers were punished by shaving their heads bald. They were paraded in the streets, marked with black ink, and even stripped half naked. This was done so that everyone would know they betrayed their country.
MyJK TIL Toy Story 2 got deleted from Pixar but was recovered by an employee who saved the movie to her computer at home while on maternal leave.