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TIL It Was Once Someone’s Job to Chat With the King While He Used the Toilet

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0wG7p TIL: When asked by London on whether the rumours regarding the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands islands were true, a Telex operator on the island simply said, "We have lots of new friends".
XEbL6 TIL that the McDonald's CEO eats McDonald's twice a day, 5 days a week.
yeKw TIL In the 2001 Disney movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Disney hired Marc Okrand to create an almost entirely new language for the the Atlantean race
vPENR TIL a classical work described as "Ode to Internet - V.90 56k dialup modem handshake for orchestra" was composited from a July 27, 1996 performance with the Monteverdi Choir and L’Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner at Avery Fisher Hall.
gM8B9 TIL that Duke, the Great Pyrenees, has been elected not once, not twice, but three times as mayor of Cormorant, MN, US. And that he’s not the only animal current serving as an elected city official.