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TIL Queen Elizabeth II and her husband were third cousins, both descended from Queen Victoria

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d8lKr TIL lupines can signal to a bee that the pollen rewards are gone or almost gone. After pollination occurs, the petals change color as a way of saying “no more here, try the next flower…” This re-directs the bee to a flower that needs pollination.
4XA96 TIL Brendan Gleeson (the man who played Mad-Eye Moody in Harry Potter movies) is the father of Domhnall Gleeson (the man who played Bill Weasley).
18MP TIL - Microsoft search engine Bing has lost the company 5.5 billion since its launch in 2009.
EJgd TIL the NORTH AMERICAN lottery system is a $70 billion-a-year business, bigger than movie tickets, music, and porn combined
OGvR4 TIL the devil‑costume cameo by John Candy in Planes, Trains & Automobiles wasn’t in the script, it was improvised on set. One day, Paramount execs showed up unexpectedly, and Candy, dressed as the devil and poking people, made them laugh. Director John Hughes immediately decided to keep the shot.