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TIL Queen Elizabeth has won more than $9.4 million on horse betting and is also the 11th most successful owner of racing horses.

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wLMeE TIL A Canadian teacher used his work issued laptop during a presentation to his Grade 6/7 class and “a picture of female genitalia from an internet ‘pop up’ was inadvertently projected onto the screen and was seen by students and an education assistant"
Wkkk4 TIL Germany has mandatory quiet time from 1pm to 3pm and 10pm to 6am Monday- Saturday and all day Sundays and holidays.
KOnnJ TIL of Stanley Hollis, the only British soldier to earn a Victoria cross medal for his actions on dday. He fought on multiple fronts during the war, killed hundreds of enemy troops, took out a tiger tank single-handed and on dday took out 2 pill boxes and captured multiple prisoners single-handed.
DnJg TIL that in the Sailor Moon universe, there was an openly homosexual character named Sailor Uranus, and her girlfriend was Sailor Neptune.
aJoM TIL that while in Rome in the 1570’s El Greco dismissed Michelangelo’s Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel and extended an offer to Pope Pius V to paint over the whole work in accord with the new and stricter Catholic thinking.