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TIL that Queen Elizabeth always brings her own toilet paper while traveling

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VMKbB TIL of Poe's Law: Without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views that can't be mistaken for a sincere expression of said extreme views.
wLPXW TIL that in 1924, two men named Leopold and Loeb tried to commit the "perfect crime" and show their intellectual superiority by killing a 14 year old boy and not getting caught. They were caught in less than two weeks.
dD7od TIL In Chinese folklore, there is a fabled matchmaker called the Old Man Under the Moon who unites predestined couples with a silken cord and whose legends serve as basis for the famous red string of fate.
yNOe TIL Aldous Huxley & C.S. Lewis died hours apart. Their deaths were overshadowed by news of the JFK assassination, which occurred on the same day
yQXPl TIL that in 1998, the cast of Half Baked and the cast of Dirty Work shared a hotel, leading to Bob Saget's cameo in Half Baked