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TIL Princess Diana is buried in an unmarked grave on an island that has metal plates just below its surface, to prevent grave robbery.

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NRLe TIL Marty Robbins, singer of Big Iron, raced in NASCAR. In the 1972 Talladega 500, his laps were 15mph faster than his qualifying time. After the race, he turned down the Rookie of the Race award and admitted that he removed the carb restrictor “to see what it was like to run up front for once.”
PYK0e TIL Essentially all penicillin produced after 1943 originated with a mold sample found on a cantaloupe in Peoria, Illinois. The moldy part was cut off and cultured and the lab technicians ate the rest of the fruit.
8aLGa TIL during Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait, 1991: a french Jaguars unit made a low-pass raid over Al-Jabr in the middle of Iraqi stronghold anti-aircraft fire, one pilot took a bullet on his head, 2 others were hit with reactor on fire, and all came back safe to the base.
XEkJ8 TIL in 2014 researchers in the U.k developed an app called, "Spider in da house", which helped identify house spiders. They discovered the peak month of spiders moving indoors is September and most are males seeking mates.
NwjM TIL Steve of Blue’s Clues interrupted his date with a Playboy model to crash a little kid’s Blue’s Clues birthday party.