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TIL Queen Elizabeth II drinks 4 cocktails every day, starting just before lunch.

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QNxD6 TIL that similar to UFOs (or more recently UAPs), the US Navy has a classification for Unidentified Submerged Objects (USOs). These are usually large unidentified marine animals and have caused more damage to naval vessels than UFOs have to planes.
YYYA TIL A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth’s surface.
YpMNB TIL: Only in the twentieth century did humans decide that the dandelion was a weed. Before the invention of lawns, the golden blossoms and lion-toothed leaves were more likely to be praised as a bounty of food, medicine and magic. Gardeners used to weed out the grass to make room for the dandelions.
16ngD TIL of the North American Water and Power Alliance, a proposed plan to divert water from The Yukon in Alaska to Southern California, Texas, and the Great Lakes
DQKpD TIL that the movie character Raymond from the Academy Award winning movie Rain man was based on real life savant, Kim Peek. He could simultaneously read the left side and right side pages of a book at the same time and had complete memory of over 12,000 books.