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TIL That Queen Elizabeth II is a trained mechanic, serving as a junior commander in WW2

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Y1dA TIL that a neutron star’s gravity is so immense, that the surface of the star is perfectly flat, and any ‘protrusions’ never exceed 5 mm. Also, neutron stars are usually around 13 km in diameter, yet a sugar cubed sized portion of the star would weigh more than Mt. Everest.
6EQym TIL Paro Airport in Bhutan is so dangerous that only eight pilots are qualified enough to land there. (Pilots maneuver between mountains, fly within feet of houses, and land on a narrow, 6,500-foot runway.)
VxDZ TiL Gucci mane once found a random girl outside a mall and asked her to go to breakfast. When the girl agreed and got into his hummer, he offered her money to sleep with him. When the lady refused, Gucci mane pushed her out of a moving car.
5YE4k TIL of the chariot race sequence in Ben-Hur (1959): the set was the largest ever built at the time and took over a year and thousands of workers to build; the director's son, a stuntman, almost died; the extras rioted on camera; and the cars filming the race were slower than the horses
Brjgd TIL the concept of the Hogwart’s houses in the Harry Potter series, was difficult to communicate for translators of foreign editions since in some cultures there was no way of adequately describing the significance of belonging to house or being loyal to one.