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TIL Queen Sunanda Kumariratana of Siam (now Thailand) drowned in 1880 in full view of many onlookers – because they were forbidden to touch her, they couldn’t rescue her

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MeADa TIL that a chimpanzee community in Gombe National Park split into two factions and went to war with each other from 1974 to 1978. During the war, male chimps would team up to raid neighbouring territories and patrol the borders. If they found a lone chimp they would brutally kill them.
yRYV TIL that Ken Osmond, Eddie Haskell from Leave It to Beaver, became a police officer for the LAPD and was shot three times while on a foot chase with a car thief. He was placed on disability and later retired after 18 years on the force.
R7NB9 TIL Mick "Crocodile" Dundee was based on an actual person named Rod Answell who survived 56 days in crocodile infested outback. He died in a police shootout after he killed a cop while high on amphetamines
gMVBD TIL During the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission, to help USA/USSR relations, astronauts and cosmonauts played smuggled audio recordings of glasses clinking, laughter, and many female voices. Houston radioed to ask what’s going on. "Oh nothing,” they said. “We finished work, just having a party up here."
ZZjD TIL that the book keeper at the 1st franchised Mcdonald’s worked for free for the first 9 months and little pay after that, and was given 10% of the company. 10 years later she cashed in part of her holdings for $300,000 (worth 1.7 mil today) and kept the rest worth 5 mil (28 mil today).