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TIL Queen Victoria Eased The Discomfort Of Her Menstrual Cramps By Having Her Doctor Supply Her With Marijuana.

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PYrNO TIL about "The Lost Chord," a song composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1877 at the bedside of his dying brother. It was recorded onto Edison's phonograph in 1888, one of the first recordings of music ever made. The piece has endured as one of Sullivan's best-known songs as is still performed today.
gMLL4 TIL about the "Super Guppy," an oddly-shaped, massive plane designed for transporting really really large cargo (rocket parts). Five were built, and they look kind of like flying beluga whales.
8axo8 TIL of Clive Palmer. An Australian billionaire who has attempted to build the Titanic II once before, failed and is now trying again. He has also built an animatronic dinosaur park on a golf course in Australia.
5VK9R TIL That Seth Rogen's first line in his first feature film is "I like your boobs."
e5y4 TIL a man named William Headline used to be the Washington Bureau Chief of CNN news, and so was described as having “the best name in news”