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lYRN TIL To guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier you must be in superb condition, have a perfect military record, be 5'10"-6'4", a proportionate weight/build, memorize 7 pages of history, recited verbatim, learn grave locations of 300 vets. After several months, they’re tested on the cemetery and Tomb.
JYbjB TIL That Queen Victoria used to take cocaine and once took the drug with Winston Churchill when he was young.
8eQrb TIL The flashing pattern of a lighthouse light is called a characteristic. Sailors know what lighthouse it is by referring to all the patterns on a chart called a "light list."
ZpLwQ TIL that Brazil in the 30s burned the equivalent of 3 times the annual worldwide consumption of coffee. They chose to burn it instead of selling it cheaply, and managed to cause the price of coffee to rise after the Great Depression. It remains one of the largest supply destructions in history.
v1RNL TIL of Irina Margareta Nistor, a Romanian woman that dubbed banned Western films during Romania's Communist regime, and by doing so, voiced Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Tom Cruise (among others).