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TIL Sony sold its waterproof Walkmans in a bottle of water to prove it was really water proof!

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BraaW TIL that Ella Slack is the stand-in for Queen Elizabeth II and takes her place for rehearsals of ‘televised engagements’. However, she’s not allowed to sit on the throne and has to ‘hover’ if she’s required to help frame certain shots.
j6QPX TIL that King Umberto I of Italy was eating in a restaurant when he noticed the owner was a near-exact physical double. It emerged that both were born on the same day, in the same town, and had married women with the same name. Umberto was shot dead on the day he learned the restaurateur was killed.
OW9a TIL of a guy who made a chicken sandwich literally from scratch – he grew a garden, harvested wheat, slaughtered a chicken, travelled to boil ocean water for salt, etc – it took him 6 months and cost him $1,500. He didn’t think it tasted very good.
rRoDd TIL that in Tucson, Arizonan in 1970, a teacher was fired for being a witch.
VBoZB TIL: Darude, the DJ who wrote Sandstorm, was thrown out of a club for not playing Sandstorm.