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TIL there is something called 'sovereign immunity', preventing Queen Elizabeth from law prosecution. In theory, she could get away with murder.

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l7JOV TIL that every employee at the Hanford Engineer Works in Richland, WA donated one day's worth of their pay to purchase a B-17 bomber, as their contribution to the WW2 effort. The plane was christened 'Day's Pay' and flew over 60 missions in Germany
4Xe6g TIL in an experiment where subjects were told to allocate funds to other subjects, they would always favour members of their own group, even though they didn't know who the groupmembers were, had never met them, and had been arbitrarily put into their group.
b9vNE TIL in 1856 an American clipper was approaching Cape Horn when its captain collapsed, leaving his 19-year-old wife to navigate through one of the world's deadliest sea passages. She commanded for 56 days, faced down a mutiny, and navigated the clipper ship into San Francisco
awnxJ TIL researchers in Scotland conducted a study on the effects of music on dogs’ behavior. They played a variety of music to dogs and assessed physiological and behavioral changes. The dogs responded most positively when they were played reggae and soft rock over other genres of music.
A6Kg TIL in a test of cognitive dissonance, researchers paid participants either $1 or $20 before completing a boring 1-hour task. Afterwards, those who were paid $1 said the study was stimulating while those paid $20 said they hated it; the low-paid people had to rationalize doing the task for only $1.