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TIL The Queen of England still has a Champion. The title is currently held by a 64 year old accountant.

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e0erb TIL about Operation Catapult. After the fall of France in 1940 Churchill ordered the Royal Navy to seize or destroy the French Navy to prevent Hitler from using it. In one British attack 1,297 French sailors were killed. This proved to US that Britain would resist Nazi Germany whatever the cost
V0pZ TIL there is a species of parrot that lives in New Zealand that is nocturnal and resembles a fat green chicken. It often lives up to 95 years, with some living to 120.
m7NR TIL a poll of 1000 members of the World Gaming Executives network voted Baldur’s Gate as their favourite game of all time.
oRK8R TIL that the said exorcism case which inspired the 1970s novel and movie 'The Exorcist' was supposedly performed on an 14 yeard-old boy in St. Louis in 1949. According to some reports, he passed away in 2020 and worked as an NASA engineer until 2001, contributing to the Apollo Program.