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E10xP TIL Queen Elizabeth II still has a 'Champion' for purposes of trial by combat and it's Francis John Fane Marmion Dymoke, a 65-year-old chartered accountant.
5Vwy8 TIL Tom Cochrane, a Canadian rock artist, released a solo of his song “big leagues” in honour of the Humboldt broncos bus crash that killed 16 people from the team. The original song from 1988 and told the story of a parent whose son earned a scholarship with a US team before dying in a car crash.
DWJg TIL studies show that teens overestimate how much the cooler kids and jocks are drinking and having sex, and also how much the nerds are studying
MNbm TIL The lyrics to Percy Sledge’s “When A Man Loves A Woman” were completely improvised by Sledge on the recording. He improvised so well that his the session musicians assumed that he had pre-written lyrics.
E1ag0 TIL that the Super Soaker was invented in 1990 by NASA engineer, and Air Force Veteran Lonnie George Johnson who describes himself as a "part of a small group of African-American inventors whose work accounts for 6 percent of all U.S. patent applications."