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TIL that Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark used to hold a regular office job at Microsoft

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ElXw TIL of Guillaume Dumas, a teenager who snuck into Ivy League schools over 4 years, gaining free education from Yale, Brown, Stanford and many others.
On5e TIL the American spelling of aluminum (as opposed to aluminium in other countries) is the result of a misspelling by the inventor of a refinement process named Charles Martin Hall. The process was so revolutionary that the spelling stuck.
YpAxx TIL Disney composer Alan Menken came from a family of dentists and trained at medical school. He was a poor student, "wild hippie" and barely finished NYU. 8 Oscars, 10 Grammys, 7 Golden Globes later, Menken is now a star at NYU with a doctorate and scholarship in his name
Vm48 TIL that Benjamin Franklin attempted to predict the death of his competitor, Titan Leeds. When Leeds was still alive he posted an obituary anyways. When Leeds challenged it, Franklin insisted he was an imposter.
JAkQ TIL that 300,000 Chinese were killed by the Japanese during the Rape of Nanking, which is 80,000 more deaths than the American bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.