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TIL there is an 81 year old model still active

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xVLjk TIL when Queen Elizabeth II dies, the BBC will cancel all comedy programming for 12 days
QJVXe TIL of Grady “Lobster Boy” Stiles, a carnival performer born with a genetic condition that fused his hands & feet into claws. He murdered his son-in-law-to-be on the night before his wedding; he got house arrest because no prison could accommodate him. He was shot and killed for abusing his wife.
69g1X TIL: The electric vibrator was first used in 1878, and began to be marketed for home use (without any sexual connotations) in magazines from around 1900, along with other electrical household goods.
a87D9 TIL that the film 'Transylvania 6-5000' (1985) starring Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley Jr. was shot in Yugoslavia and coproduced by the Dow Chemical Company. Dow had funds in Yugoslavian Dinars that could only be spent within the country, and they needed to unfreeze the assets.
VMb9G TIL 'Judy' the dog was on board the HMS Grasshopper, and could hear enemy aircraft coming in. The ship sunk, and she found fresh water for the crew on a desert island and survivied a croc attack and was eventually registered by the Japanese as a prisoner of war.