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TIL Queen Elizabeth II of England is “addicted” to playing the Wii and has her own specially made gold-plated console.

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eE1E TIL snake anti venom is made from the neutralising antibodies that a horse produces when it is injected with snake venom
J1Lrm TIL There was case in US where a person failed to die during electric chair execution and then his lawyers tried to argue that he was not dead but he had been executed and that it was cruel to go through a second time.
E1PnP TIL Marcel Marceau, perhaps the world’s most famous mime, was a Jewish member of the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation of France. His own father had perished in Auschwitz. He used his skills as a mime to help keep children quiet while the Resistance smuggled them to safety.
GYXRJ TIL a villager in China unknowingly used a hand grenade to crack walnuts for a quarter century, until he saw the grenade in a government flyer
wLDaE TIL Shel Silverstein, acclaimed children's author of notable books such as The Giving Tree, also wrote award winning scores and lyrics; including winning a Grammy for A Boy Named Sue popularized by Johnny Cash