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TIL Queen Elizabeth II is a trained mechanic. She learned her skills in WWII (1945) as part of the Auxiliary Territorial Service.

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aw7Y0 TIL Every door frame in Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace had to be taken down and rebuilt when they proved to be too low for 6’4 tall Liam Neeson. It cost the set-crew an extra $150,000.
ame9 TIL Catapults were at times used to fling infected corpses towards defending garrisons back in the middle ages. Causing diseases and plagues, this was the Biological warfare of the time.
nWm6o TIL The famous "Red Wedding" Game of Thrones episode was actually based on real historical Scottish events called the Black Dinner, which happened in AD 1440 and the Massacre of Glencoe, which happened in AD 1691.
jDKn TIL during the 1964 Presidential election Fact magazine polled psychiatrists about the mental competence of Barry Goldwater. Goldwater successfully sued and as a result the psychiatric community created the Goldwater rule to prevent them from diagnosing people they haven’t personally examined
1RlO TIL After Ben Franklin lost his 4 year old son to Smallpox, he became an advocate for Inoculation, and stated in his autobiography: “I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation.“