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TIL Queen Victoria was prescribed cannabis for her menstrual cramps

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0dW81 TIL An engineer named Walter "Taffy" Holden accidentally took off in a military jet without knowing how to fly it
09nN TIL that every year around a dozen Japanese tourists have psychiatric breakdowns caused by French rudeness
BEQr TIL SR-71 Blackbird pilots where tasked to fly over foreign ceremonies to lay down a sonic boom when heads of state were greeting each other. Just to remind them that what they were doing was against US policy.
ADWNg TIL: The film "The Hobbit" caused as many as 27 animals deaths during production. One horse had the skin and muscles of her leg torn off by wire fencing, several chickens were mauled to death by unsupervised dogs, and one horse was hobbled and left on the ground for three hours.
8ag4 TIL: Mount Everest has 3G mobile coverage, so you can browse Reddit when you reach the top.