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TIL that in preparation for a state visit by Nicolae Ceausescu, Elizabeth II ordered the guest rooms of Buckingham Palace be stripped of valuables for fears that they’d be stolen. She later described the visit as the worst three days of her life

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9oDp TIL in mid 2008, media outlets reported that Dr Pepper would offer a free can of Dr Pepper to everyone in the USA —excluding former Guns N’ Roses guitarists Buckethead and Slash— if the band released Chinese Democracy in 2008. They failed on their vow and were threatened litigation by Axl Rose.
LQoBd TIL Caption America debuted in Caption America Comics #1 in 1941, the cover of which depicted him punching Hitler in the face
Q8rd TIL in 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved
8vgP TIL that one woman successfully smuggled 2500 jewish children away from the nazis during the holocaust.
vOlj TIL: Andrew Jackson’s parrot was ejected from his funeral for swearing