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TIL at age 16, Queen Anne of Romania fled from the Nazi Germans in 1939 and eventually escaped to the US. She attended college in NY and worked as a sales assistant at Macy’s department store. In 1943, she volunteered for military service in the French Army, where she received the Cross of war

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BrYMK TIL about a environmentalist who took a vow of silence for 17 years. He first started by taking a vow to never use motor vehicles after the 1971 San Francisco oil spill. He even went through school and even got a PHD while being silent. He only broke it when he played his banjo and thanked the crowd
weg8 TIL that the Guinness record holder for the largest meal in the world is a traditional Bedouin wedding dish: a whole camel, stuffed with a whole lamb, stuffed with chickens, stuffed with fish, stuffed with eggs.
rJBo TIL the 1913 Tour de France rules forbade outside assistance when riders’ bicycles broke.At one point,the race leader’s front fork broke and he trekked 10km to a forge where he repaired it himself,as he happened to also be a skilled mechanic.He was penalized 10 min because a child worked the bellows
ydpJ TIL 24 yr old woman was sentenced to 20 months in jail for sending abusive Facebook messages to herself from fake profiles she made for her father and his wife
b9XKp TIL in 2007, an English woman cremated her missing son, only for him to turn up alive and well a day later. It turned out that the police had mistakenly identified another dead man as her son, and she herself had become convinced after they confirmed his “distinctive scars”, such as a brain injury.