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

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N7Rpe TIL In 2011 two fishermen from Kiribati went adrift for 33 days before landing in the Marshall Islands. They then found out that their hitherto thought to be dead uncle, who went missing 25 years earlier after also going adrift, had landed in the Marshall Islands as well and married there.
oRmdo TIL Two of Kurt Cobain's closest friends, Mark Lanegan and Dylan Carlson credit Courtney Love with saving their lives in the years after his death. She felt he would want them to be saved and decided to support them both morally and financially so they can go to rehab and turn their lives around
4Lgo TIL the 4th richest man in the world(Warren Buffett) still lives in the house he bought for $31,500 in 1958.
8mNZ TIL Lemmy from Motorhead had an action figure made of him. He asked if they were going to put a penis on it. They said no. He replied “Well, then it’s not going to get much action then, is it?”
6Y0Y TIL it costs $88,000 per year to keep a minor incarcerated but only $12,500 per year to educate them in public schools.