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TIL Queen Elizabeth II is the only living head of state to have served in World War II

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xOYD TIL in 1970 you could travel between DC and NYC by train in 2 hours and 30 minutes for $12.75. Today it takes Amtrak’s high-speed Acela 3 hours and it costs $158.
dDZmj TIL that Mahatma Gandhi never won the Nobel Peace Prize despite being nominated five times. The yeah Gandhi was assassinated, the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to make no award on the grounds that "there was no suitable living candidate".
WkVJA TIL Lawns take up nearly 2 percent of the surface of the continental United States, making turf grass—not corn—America’s largest irrigated crop.
ybM TIL Colonel Gaddafi was sodomised with a knife or stick before he was killed
yV8jJ TIL: The May 18, 1980 Mount St Helens eruption caused the largest landslide in recorded history.