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TIL Through her grandmother Mary, Queen Elizabeth is a direct descendant of Vlad the Impaler

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J15P1 TIL about Teri Horton, a truck driver who bought a painting for $5 in a thrift shop that turned out to be a potential Jackson Pollock. However, the painting has not yet been definitively verified. Horton died without selling the painting.
D1jAv TIL That Mike Row, the host of Dirty Jobs, was a former opera singer. This ended up landing him a job at QVC that he apparently got fired from 3 separate times.
grWE9 TIL at the turn of the 20th century, baseball umpires were prominent community members chosen from the crowd. They were given easy chairs in the general vicinity of home plate, a fan for hot days, food, and beer.
NXgZP Today I learned that there is a kind of mineral called "Cummingtonite" .
QNDXd TIL Bill Atkinson, an early engineer working on the OG Macintosh at Apple, developed the "double click"