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TIL serial child molester and necrophiliac Jimmy Savile was a marriage counsellor for Princess Diana and Prince Charles

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v1Kdx TIL that anti-margarine Senator Gordon Roselip incorrectly identified margarine as butter in a blind taste test. His wife later confessed that she had been feeding him margarine and telling him that it was butter.
0dNrA TIL that the United States severed direct diplomatic relations with the Vatican in 1867 in the wake of rumors of Catholic implication in the Lincoln assassination. Direct relations were reestablished in 1984.
R5DLa TIL that Luis Alvarez, designed the implosion mechanism for the "Fat Boy" plutonium bomb also discovered the theory that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs
rRWAo TIL King of Bohemia Charles IV, who commissioned the construction of Prague's Charles Bridge in the 14th century, was rumored to have ordered that egg yolks be added to enrich the mortar and strength the bridge's structure. Scientific evidence indeed found the presence of egg proteins in the mortar.
J1v68 TIL that director Nicholas Ray claimed his marriage with his wife Gloria Grahame ended after he found her in bed with his 13 year old son Tony from a previous marriage. Gloria married Tony a decade later.