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TIL Queen Victoria was fluent in Urdu and Hindi.

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VB7Nk TIL in the 1980s Bill Benter developed a statistical model that identified factors that could lead to making successful Hong Kong horse racing predictions. As one of the most successful analysis computer software programs in the horse racing market, it helped Benter win nearly $1 billion.
8nW8 TIL On Sept 11, 1997, a man claiming to be an ex-Area 51 employee frantically called into a radio station. During the call, the radio station suffered a satellite failure.
pYaZ TIL that there is an actual psychological disease which confuses people to think they’re in a dream. Like in Inception when Cobb’s wife kills herself because of this confusion.
0vXM TIL in 2000, Coca-Cola ran a secret campaign to teach waiters how to use “suggestive selling techniques” to offer an onslaught of alternative beverages when diners asked for water
aexb TIL that the chief of Police in St. Paul let mobsters like Machine Gun Kelly, John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson live in the city as long as they didn’t commit any crimes there. They were also protected from extradition and tipped off of any federal raids.