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TIL the Russian Romanov Royal House still exists in exile. They have a Grand Duchess, an heir tsesarevich, and a website.

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W7rdo TIL In 1995, a boy was discovered with blood containing no trace of his father’s DNA due to an extremely rare case of partial human parthenogenesis, where the mother’s egg cell divided just prior to fertilization, making parts of his body genetically fatherless.
oB7AA TIL Pee-Wee Herman's father, Milton Rubenfeld, flew for the RAF, USAAF, and is considered one of the five founders of the Israeli Air Force (IAF).
wolAM TIL that Roger Boisjoly was an engineer working at NASA in 1986 that predicted that the O-rings on the Challenger would fail and tried to abort the mission but nobody listened to him
6Egl7 TIL Pres. Teddy Roosevelt was given strong coffee and puffs of cigar as a child to 'help' with his asthma. As an adult his coffee drinking became legendary and he drank up to 40 cups/day. His son, Theodore Jr., remarked that his father's ideal coffee cup might be "more in the nature of a bathtub"
Lg90 TIL After Soviet authorities released The Grapes of Wrath as propaganda against the injustices of American capitalism, they were forced to backtrack and ban the film as audiences were instead impressed with how even poor rural American farmers owned cars