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TIL Queen Elizabeth used cannabis to help with her menstrual cramps

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5V57B TIL in 1954, Jim Lovell lost his navigation systems while flying at night over the Sea of Japan. He was able to locate his carrier using the bioluminescence of dinoflagellates in its wake and successfully land. He would later go on to land the damaged Apollo 13 capsule.
MeEBV TIL Charlie Chaplin was actually a pedophile who exclusively dated and married girls under 17 years of age even when he was 50 years old
rRaV1 TIL The ancient Egyptian “Festival of Drunkenness” was a yearly commemoration of humanity’s saving from the goddess Hathor after she got drunk and fell asleep. They would spend a day drinking and having sex, then be woken up the next day by loud drum-playing.
oBWR7 TIL selfies distort the face and can make the nose appear 30% larger than the rest of the face, and is linked to a rise in patients seeking nose jobs because they say their noses looked too big in their selfies
ADa5g TIL: During the 1920 Olympics in Belgium a man who had just come third in the diving stole the official Olympic flag as a dare. He returned it 103 years old in the year 2000