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TIL Queen Elizabeth has only bowed to one person since becoming the Monarch. It was Princess Diana's coffin at her funeral.

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OGYO4 TIL that in the 1960s, the US roasted a 1440-acre swath of Wisconsin forest with ~10,000 curies of radiation for 6 months in order to determine how it affected the area. Most of the damage was confined to the area directly adjacent to the source, and the area is completely non-hazardous today.
d8Q1K TIL Edward James Olmos was offered the role of captain of the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation before Patrick Stewart
vP48 TIL that the military implemented the no facial hair rule during WWI to make sure gas masks fit air tight.
LnDZ TIL in 1996 the IRA planted a bomb in Manchester City centre and told the authorities they had an hour to evacuate the area. The police successfully managed to evacuate 75,000 people in what has been called the most ‘extraordinary policing operations’ in UK history. There wasn’t a single fatality.
GY1WJ TIL Ed Sheeran’s childhood friend was struggling financially and asked him to put one of her songs on his then-nearly completed album “X”. Instead they wrote “Thinking Out Loud” together which was released as a single and hit #1. She’ll never have to worry about money again.