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TIL Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, the daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, lived up until 1990.

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1Yar TIL in 2008 Nadya Suleman, mother to six children, was implanted with 12 embryos via in vitro fertilization. She gave birth to octuplets (eight babies – all survived) and was dubbed “Octomom”. Dr. Michael Kamrava lost his medical license due to of his “extreme departure from standard of care”.
bdYZ TIL: There was a big budget pornographic movie ($1.2M) called “Uninhibited” released in 1995 that was deemed good enough to be picked up and released on HBO after being edited to an ‘R’ rating.
0d7Wj TIL that In 1999, hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log in to any Hotmail account using the password 'eh'. At the time, it was called "the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web"
9v5r TIL that in 2005 capuchin monkeys were taught how to use money. The monkeys used the money to buy sex from other monkeys.
Z6Y4 TIL that the popular candy coated chocolate known as Smarties in the rest of the world, is not sold in the United states. Instead, in the States, the smarties name rights is owned by the Smarties Candy Company, producers of the tablet candy “Smarties” (a.k.a. Rockets).