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TIL that Christopher Guest (of Spinal Tap and Best in Show fame) is from a long line of a British aristocrats. He is a member of the House of Lords and his official title is The Right Honorable Lord Hayden-Guest

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dDAWr TIL Thanks to an obscure canonical law Earth's Moon has an assigned Catholic bishop.
awnvZ TIL that on February 25, 1991 28 US soldiers died when a previously reported software glitch in the Patriot Missile system’s clock prevented it from shooting down an Iraqi SCUD missile. A software patch to fix it was released on the following day.
OGP57 til E. E. Cummings preferred capitalizing his name. "e. e. cummings" was popularized by his publishers, to reflect his odd style. After his death, one critic claimed the author legally de-capitalized his name, but Cummings' wife said this was an utter lie. Still, the tradition stuck around.
E1rko TIL The USA won the last ever Olympic gold medal for rugby in 1924 and are therefore technically still reigning champions.
jNa0Q TIL That starving male humans can sense the Earths geomagnetic field when under blue light and with a previous food association. The mechanism is unknown but thought to be entangled radical pairs in the eye.