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TIL Queen Elizabeth II is the head of a whopping 16 states.

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OJkg TIL the Soviet Union had a water computer created in 1928 that was used until the 1980s.
b6J5p TIL gunshot wounds to the genitalia account for up to 5% of all military traumas
KbrE TIL Ol Dirty Bastard from the Wu-tang Clan helped lift a ford mustang off of a 4 year old girl who was just in a car accident. Using a false name he visited the girl frequently until he was spotted by members of the media.
8eRnP TIL, the CIA hunted down top Nazi scientists after WWII, in hopes of convincing them to help develop weapons and the space program that took the US to the moon. These Nazis and their families received full American Citizenship and their war crimes were well known to the officers that found them
epZGL TIL that electrical devices have something called a „Sabbath mode“ which exists to restrict functions of said devices to be used, as energy/fire usage to cook is prohibited during the sabbath