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TIL Queen Elizabeth II is likely a direct descendant of Dracula through her grandmother Queen Mary

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l7lo7 TIL about Absalom Boston who in 1822 became the first African-American to captain and sail a whaleship with an all black crew
ZrBo TIL Humans have 16 more senses than sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. They include balance, temperature, hunger and pain.
newVo TIL of Operation London Bridge, a detailed plan for what is to happen in the days after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. The plan is updated several times yearly and was devised in the 1960s.
DlKj TIL Issac Newton roamed the streets as anti-counterfeit coin vigilante, then invented the ridges on coins to reduce fraud currency
69gjY TIL shooting a thin stream of liquid from under your tongue is called gleeking and there's even a world record for most gleeking within 10 minutes