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TIL that actor Tim Curry based his accent for Frank N. Furter on Queen Elizabeth II

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obZr TIL Georg Von Trapp Killed 684 French Sailors during WWI. His family would be later be the basis for “The Sound of Music”.
ANkKa TIL that the Burpee is named after a person named Royal Burpee
kJdx7 TIL Federico da Montefeltro lost one of his eyes in a tournament so he had the bridge of his nose removed to increase the field of vision of his remaining eye.
ABv7 TIL the projectile in badminton, called a shuttlecock, can be real feathers or synthetic. Real feather shuttlecocks, like those used in the Olympics, contain 16 feathers plucked from the left, and only left, wing of a goose. This ensures consistent rotation.
bxYa TIL TATA group(an Indian company) bought Jaguar- Land Rover from Ford as revenge for the chairman of Ford insulting TATA representatives.