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TIL that Prince Andrew Andreevich Romanov, the heir to the former Russian monarchy, is an artist currently living in California

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epndE TIL about de Clérambault's Syndrome, a disorder where someone has delusions of another person being infatuated with them. One case involved a woman who believed King George V of England was communicating his love for her by moving the curtains at Buckingham Palace.
d85DE TIL of HMS Electra, a British WW2 destroyer that saved the three survivors of HMS Hood, rescued 571 men off HMS Repulse at the Battle of Kuantan, and was sunk at the Battle of the Java Sea in a lone suicide attack against the Japanese fleet, buying time for the crippled cruiser HMS Exeter to escape.
jQQN TIL the knuckleball is so rare in baseball that pitchers who use it share tips and suggestions even if on competing teams, because they have no others on their own teams to discuss the pitch with.
QMPk TIL Most black Jamaicans have Irish ancestry, due to the Irish slave population mixing with West African slaves
dD9MB TIL John Quincy Adams was nearly a casualty of the first fatal train accident in US history. The car in which he rode would have overturned had the car behind it not done so first. Of the 24 passengers in the overturned car, 2 died & 21 were injured, including Cornelius Vanderbilt (broken leg).