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TIL Only 1 reigning monarch speaks Czech fluently, namely, the King of Cambodia

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xVVQ0 TIL that the rumour that actress Lupe Velez drowned in her toilet when she slipped while vomiting after a barbiturate overdose is false. Official reports state her death was due to Seconal poisoning not drowning
mxO6v TIL that Cassowary meat is so tough that people were told to cook it with a stone in the pot. "When the stone is ready to eat, so is the Cassowary."
DDrV TIL that the scar on Tina Fey’s face happened when she was five year old. She was playing in the front yard and a complete stranger came up and cut her face with a knife.
JpwV TIL that the chef’s hat (or toque) has 100 folds in it to represent the number of different ways the chef can cook an egg
PYZgG TIL “that when we see really ancient images of far off and very, very old objects, that light has traveled from that star through the universe for sometimes billions of years and the first object it hit was our telescope detector.”