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TIL Queen Elizabeth served as a truck mechanic in WW2

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6EZ0l TIL in 1940, a 14 year old Fidel Castro wrote a letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt asking "If you like, give me a ten dollars bill green American, in the letter, because never, I have not seen a ten dollars bill green American and I would like to have one of them."
9wAer TIL of Tilt Cove in Newfoundland, the smallest town in Canada with a population of 4-5 inhabitants.
ADkQo TIL in the 1920s, a man falsely claiming to be a doctor implanted goat testicles into people across the US as a cure for all diseases. He was condemned by the AMA and media, but ran for governor of Kansas in 1930, narrowly losing after thousands of votes for him were questionably disqualified.
OjG4 TIL Russell Crowe, Daniel Day-Lewis, Vin Diesel and Nicolas Cage all turned down the part of Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Y7nd7 TIL There is a such thing as a Pornocracy which is a government run by prostitutes or officials so corrupt they act like prostitutes.