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TIL that the Queen christened the British Royal Navy's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth with a bottle of single malt Scotch whisky from the Bowmore distillery on the island of Islay instead of champagne because the ship had been built and launched in Scotland.

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4XYeo TIL Betty white's character, Rose Nyland, on The Golden Girls, had a brush with HIV. The show, titled “72 Hours,” centered on Rose after she learns that a blood transfusion she received may have exposed her to HIV. The message of the show was that HIV and AIDS had the potential to affect anyone.
9wNjr TIL General Patton had training grounds in the Mojave desert during World War II and tank tracks from the time remain visible. The area is now within the Mojave National Preserve and military debrit can be found along with the compacted soil.
e0p4L Yes. Marc Levine, the chief of gastrointestinal radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, has found that a competitive eater’s stomach works more like an expanding balloon than a squeezing sac.
NXPBE TIL American Billionaire Ted Turner once competed in an ostrich-drawn chariot race because the MLB team he had purchased, the Braves, were so bad.
QvDa TIL Christopher Tolkien, son of Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien, has said of the films, “They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25”..[..]..“The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing.”