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TIL that Queen Elizabeth II was a mechanic and truck driver during WW2. She's the only female from the royal family in British history to join the armed services.

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RY99 TIL of Cocaine Bear, AKA Pablo Eskobear. The bear died in a National Forest in Kentucky in ‘85 after ingesting a portion of 75lbs of coke ($15mil value) that had been dropped by a drug-smuggling, corrupt, fugitive lawyer who had been parachuting with it before falling to his death.
WkBjA TIL Pope Gregory IX's association of cats with witchcraft led to the wholesale slaughter of the critters, and some scholars believe believe that by the 1300’s, Europe’s cat numbers were sufficiently depleted to prevent them from killing rats and mice, allowing the bubonic plague to spread.
R7Qal TIL of Joan Quiqley, an astrologer and secret "advisor" to the Reagan White House. "Virtually every move" the Reagans made was cleared through her to "make certain that the planets were in a favorable alignment."
mJNP TIL that over the last several years, pig farms have started exploding in the US Midwest, and scientists still aren’t exactly sure why it is happening.
aOQN TIL That the number of Voodoo Practitioners in New Orleans dropped 90% after Hurricane Katrina