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TIL Queen Elizabeth II does not have a passport because passports are issued in her name and on her authority

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GAnpQ TIL about Loganair Flight 6780, where after falling at a rate of 9500 per minute and only 7 seconds from crashing into the North Sea, a random computer glitch caused the autopilot to disengage. Allowing the pilots to regain control and save the aircraft.
Gly5 TIL if North Korean Olympic gymnasts don’t win medals, they are sent into labor camps
78LbM Til in 2000, a convicted murderer on death row's execution was denied because he was "too fat to hang"
BvVb TIL that football player Mardy Gilyard was kicked out of the University of Cincinnati and owed the school $10,000. he then worked 4 jobs simultaneously and slept in his car just to get back into school, eventually becoming the leading wide receiver in UC history
a8AAy TIL there was an Irish business called the “Swastika Laundry” founded in 1912 that kept its name and logo until 1987