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TIL that while at university, Prince William was called "Steve" to avoid any journalists overhearing and discovering his identity

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dAdK TIL that in 1997 a 23 year old French man took the identity of 16 year old missing child from San Antonio, Texas. Which got him from Spain, to America, got him a U.S. citizenship and fooled the family that he was their child.
6xGJ TIL of Terry Jo Dupperrault who in 1961 at 11 yrs old survived 4 days at sea on a cork float after the boat she was on sank. The boats captain murdered everyone aboard including her parents and siblings. Police thought the soul survivor was the boats captain.
WkQlX TIL coins thrown into the Trevi fountain in Rome where collected by an Italian man for 34 years. Doing this 6 days a week; making sometimes as much as $1000 for a 15 minutes splash. He started fishing the fountain in 1968.
NpyM TIL that in Saudi Arabia the weekend is Thursday and Friday. Some business leaders want to switch to a Friday-Saturday weekend to match other Middle Eastern countries, but religious conservatives don’t want to share a weekend with Israel.
D1kde TIL of the Alpheidae AKA pistol shrimp, that is one of the loudest animal in the sea and produces a bubble that when collapses reaches temperatures of over 7,700 °C