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TIL Queen Elizabeth was a mechanic in WWII

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nWLVW TIL that the total value of all the gold owned in the world is only slightly less than the total value of all stocks ($18 trillion vs $22 trillion, respectively)
4kmnR TIL about Christine Granville, a WW2 spy and Polish aristocrat - Winston Churchill would declare her as his favourite spy. She talks her way into service with M16, gets captured by Germans twice but escapes, and rescues her lover from execution by firing squad.
Me1g8 TIL that a study found that Internet trolls tended to have personality traits related to sadism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism, and that the link between trolling and sadism was the strongest out of all three traits.
Mejvm TIL that Lethal Weapon 2 opened in South Africa, December 1989. Despite the film's anti-South African stance, it was passed uncut by the censors and it was a huge hit. Two months later, Nelson Mandela was released from prison. Danny Glover had actually portrayed him in HBO’s Mandela (1987)
4XQog TIL that Koi carps bread outside of Japan live on average 15 years, while the average age of Japanese koi is 40 years and the oldest recorded lifespan is 226 years (the Koi named Hanako lived from 1751 to 1977).