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TIL: After 9/11, Queen Elizabeth II Had the Band of the Coldstream Guard Play The Star Spangled Banner

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0w8Ep TIL of Chartreuse, a storied French liqueur with a recipe that dates back to the early 1600s. The recipe originated in an old alchemical textbook presented to an order of monks by an artillery marshal of the French army. The original order of monks retains brewing rights to this day.
ZYAo TIL during WWII, Bill Tutte cracked the German Lorenz cipher using nothing more than a pen and paper, and having never seen the machine, after the Germans accidentally sent the same message twice. It is described as one the the greatest intellectual feats of the 20th Century.
9YQOG TIL both "soccer" and "football" are just nicknames for the sport, and the actual name of the sport is "association football." Additionally, the term "soccer" was invented by the British as an abbreviation for "association."
nW6Er TIL The 1896 Ford Quadricycle was Henry Ford's first attempt to build a gasoline-powered automobile and he tried to make it as simple as possible. He sold his Quadricycle for $200 in order to build his second car but bought the car back for $65 in 1904 after his company became successful
gAVD TIL: That on 9/11, after the first plane hit the North Tower of the WTC, people in the South Tower wanted to leave but were advised by a announcement to stay at their desks. Some of those who tried to leave anyway were turned back by security in the building before the exits. 1,120 died.