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TIL that Queen Elizabeth II had to use ration coupons to buy the material for her wedding gown

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d987 TIL that a Dutch warship was disguised as a tropical island during WWII to escape detection by the Japanese. It was the only ship of its class to survive.
J1Bl1 TIL: In the late 1970’s, a radioactive Source of Cobalt-60 was smelted down to make rebar, and ~4000 people were exposed across Mexico and the US. The contamination was found in 1984, when a trucker took a wrong turn, into the Los Alamos Lab, setting off detectors.
eAK6 TIL in 2002 in Alabama, two sisters were driving on the highway in opposite directions to visit each other. Their cars collided and they were both killed.
61DY TIL that Jim Bowie, after being shot and impaled by a sword after a duel, disemboweled a local sheriff, was shot and stabbed again and survived. For this reason, the large knife he used in the fight is called a Bowie Knife.
Xb7k TIL: One of the oldest and most effective asthma meds, Albuterol, was $15 per inhaler in 2000, now after it was re-patented it is $100.