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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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e86k TIL that the US requires all cars made after 2018 to have a backup camera installed.
0wGp TIL Jesus Christ is mentioned in the Qur'an five times more often than Muhammad
evrg TIL that in Iran, the US is the “Great Satan”, the USSR was the “Lesser Satan”, and Israel is the “Little Satan”.
p8nKZ TIL in 1983 a brain wound cured a 19 year old man of OCD and he became a straight A student and retained the same IQ.
BrR9k TIL Chess Grand Master Ossip Bernstein was arrested by the Bolshevik secret police and ordered to be shot. As the firing squad lined up, an officer asked if he was really the famous chess master. The officer made Bernstein play a game for his life against him. Bernstein won easily and was released.