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TIL Queen Elizabeth II likes her steak well-done and dislikes garlic

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oRlr7 TIL of Deborah Sampson. She was a woman from Massachusetts who disguised herself as a man and served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After her sex was revealed in 1783 she was honorably discharged at West Point.
BgboD TIL the first snowboarders in the 1960s were often kicked off ski resorts for being “too unruly” and “dangerous to skiing culture.” It wasn’t until the late 1980s that most resorts fully accepted snowboarding.
JYaZQ TIL that Suge Knight allegedly tried to have Eminem killed twice
wLOwW TIL a study shows that smokers have been found to be more successful at quitting smoking when they go "cold turkey" (sudden abstinence), as opposed to gradually cutting back.
R7DXw TIL that AMBER Alert, which now stands for America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response, was originally named after Amber Hagerman, a nine year old girl from Texas who was abducted and murdered in 1966.