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TIL Queen Elizabeth II was certified truck mechanic

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68eX TIL an Iraqi suicide bombing instructor accidentally used live explosives while conducting a demonstration and blew himself up together with 21 members of his class
DXGj TIL no one born blind has ever developed schizophrenia
VD9p TIL Until 1735 no new metals had been discovered since prehistoric times; iron, copper, silver, gold, zinc, mercury, tin, lead & bismuth. When Georg Brandt recognised a tenth, Cobalt, he became the first ever known person to discover a metal. For thousands of years cobalt was mistaken for bismuth.
YK5x TIL Iqbal Masih, a 4 year old sold into bonded labour ran free and helped free 3000 more children before being shot when he was 12 years old.
rngy TIL in Rocky (1976), Rocky 2 (1979), and Rocky Balboa (2006), Rocky’s pet turtles Cuff and Link were the same two turtles each time. 30 years of acting experience.