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TIL Betty White is actually 4 years older than the Queen of England (Born 1922 to the Queen's 1926)

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JYmO8 TIL of TV Pickup in England which refers to a phenomenon that affects electricity generation and transmission networks. It happens a lot during "Tea Time" where folks start their electric kettles all at once.
l7ePG TIL that snowballs helped extinguish a train fire. After a collision in January 1882, rescuers ran out of water. They formed giant snowballs and rolled them onto the burning cars to extinguish the flames. Among the dead was Webster Wagner, crushed between two sleepings cars his company had built.
neg99 TIL during the Cold War, the US built Camp Century, in Greenland - a supposed research facility under the Arctic ice that was actually part of a project to install nuclear missile sites. It was abandoned and environmental hazards including waste from its nuclear reactor are now under the ice.
6ZO8 TIL Led Zeppelin was refused entry into Singapore because the band members had long hair
X0wQD TIL President Millard Fillmore taught elementary school while clerking for a county judge, and he also married his own beloved teacher, Abigail Powers