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TIL Queen Elizabeth is also the Duke of Normandy, but only when she visits the Channel Islands. The title stays as “Duke” even if the monarch is a woman.

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80jX TIL the first commercially successful typewriter was built by an arms manufacturer and looked like a sewing machine
obwW TIL of “muntzing”, a method for improving the design of electronic products: Remove components until it stops working, then put the last-removed part back in. It is named after Earl “Madman” Muntz, who used the method to cut manufacturing costs of his popular televisions in the 1940s and 50s.
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MElK TIL Due to difficulties importing the necessary ingredients to make Coca-Cola syrup into Nazi Germany, Coca-Cola company decided to make a new product with the available ingredients at that time, the product is called Fanta.