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TIL Grace Kelly retired from acting at age 26 then moved to Monaco to marry the prince there. When she was 52, she died in a car accident. Her daughter was in the car at the time but was unable to regain control of the car or attend the funeral of her mother due to injuries sustained in the accident

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6nY TIL, after searching for ‘overkill’, that there is such a thing as a 'nuclear land mine’.
0PaL TIL Police SWAT sniper Mike Plumb managed to shoot a revolver out of a suicidal person’s hand.
kOMxm TIL the disco song “freak out”, was originally titled “Fuck Off”
NX06E TIL that flying squirrels glow hot pink with blue ears, nose, and paws under a UV light
nWJob TIL that long before the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns around the world, Mexico had a 5 day nationwide lockdown in 2009 (with nearly identical rules to those seen during the Covid lockdowns) for the H1N1 swine flu pandemic.