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TIL Bill Gates is a Knight Commander in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

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YpjdA TIL that Justin Long was drugged and abducted while filming Youth in Revolt in Michigan.
yV7yl TIL Korean serial killer Kim Sun-ja laced her friend's tea with cyanide, causing her to vomit. She told her friend that she would feel better if she drank more of the beverage, but her friend became suspicious and refused, becoming the only known survivor of 6 poisoning victims from 1986 to 1988
r6ne TIL Russians gave one of the puppies of the space dog, Strelka to JFK’s daughter Caroline.
aLxL TIL a stranded Dutch warship, the HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen, evaded Japanese bombers in WWII by disguising itself as an island.
v1xWL TIL: the "legs" you see in old high speed footage of nuclear tests are a result of the explosion chasing down the wires of the support tower. The metal of the wire conducts heat faster than the surrounding air, allowing the pulses to move out ahead of the rest of the blast.