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TIL Queen Victoria was prescribed cannabis for her menstrual cramps.

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wLL96 TIL that Prince was Prince's real name(Prince Rogers Nelson), but after a contractual dispute with W.Bros. he changed his stage name to an unpronouncable symbol earning himself the name "The Artist Formally Know as Prince" and "forcing a mass mailing of floppy disks with custom font."
v1NvK TIL: Doc Severinson, the musical director of the Tonight Show for 30 years, started performing professionally in 1946. He is still actively touring at 92.
WZRo TIL Hitler had a pet alligator(Mississippi alligator), named Saturn, now age 85, that Russians were gifted by British government and it still lives and can be seen in Moscow Zoo.
yQjle TIL during the filming of Avatar, the lead visual effects company, Weta Digital, hired 900 people to work on the movie at one time. To render Avatar, Weta made use of 4,000 Hewlett-Packard servers with 35,000 processor cores with 104 terabytes of RAM and three petabytes of network area storage!
Py4J TIL That in 1685 someone picked up Oliver Cromwell’s head off of the ground, and then it was traded by collectors for 300 years