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TIL for her 39th birthday celebration Queen Elizabeth and family attended a Spike Milligan play. Noticing Peter Sellers sat among the royals, Spike lobbed a slipper at Sellers, just missing Prince Philip's head, and then spent the rest of the performance poking fun at the Queen for bringing her son

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gJ1D TIL of Mrs. Miller, a middle-aged housewife with no formal music training, whose first album “Mrs. Miller’s Greatest Hits” consisted of badly sung covers of popular pop songs from bands such as The Beatles. Her album reached #15 on the Billboard’s Top Albums chart in 1966.
YGGA TIL Brazil was home of the largest Nazi party outside Germany, with more than 40,000 affiliates.
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Me4RW TIL that there are 34 different National Emergencies currently active in the USA. The longest-running one still in existence was declared in 1979.