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

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0wxk5 TIL in 2015, Croatian Sara Grkovic tried to kill her identical twin Dajana. Jealousy was the reason, Sara was in love with a man but after serious thought the guy wanted to settle with Dajana.
0dvWR TIL Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a Prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Wjbo TIL McDonald’s was originally “McDonald’s Bar-B-Que” until they realized that its main profit came from hamburgers, then they closed the place for 2 months and changed the food they served to just hamburgers, french fries, shakes, soft drinks, and apple pie, and also made the idea of fast food.
Brj4d TIL: When model/actress Brooke Shields was 10, photographer Garry Gross, with her mom's consent, took nude photos of her in a bathtub wearing adult makeup and covered in oil, and rights to said photos were contested in court.
QNJwa TIL NASA worked with a company to create a material called translucent polycrystalline alumina (TPA). It was intended to protect infrared antennas on heat-seeking missiles. This material would later be used for invisible braces due to its strength and transparency.