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168kX TIL Stephen King used to do so much cocaine that he had to shove gauze in his nose to keep blood from leaking onto his typewriter.
AD8Qg TIL After the English takeover of New Amsterdam in 1664, Dutch continued to be spoken until 1962, when the last Dutch speaker in New Jersey died.
d8wMB TIL that Queen Elizabeth II is considered the first head of state to have used electronic mail. On March 26, 1976, sent her first email while taking part in a network technology demonstration in Malvern, England. The message was transmitted over ARPANET, the forerunner of the modern Internet.
78pLO TIL “well stretched” chicken anuses where used as an indigenous treatment for rattlesnake bites (1928)
loGa5 TIL a Russian woman - angry at being denied French citizenship - once tried to attack the Mona Lisa by throwing a ceramic tea cup at it. Luckily it was ecased in bulletproof glass.