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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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X06NX TIL about Jerónimo de Ayanz, a 17th century Spanish soldier, painter, astronomer, musician and inventor whom registered the first modern patent for a steam engine, designed a submarine and tested out a diving suit before Felipe III by submerging a man in the Pisuerga river for an hour.
P105O TIL that clown college was actually real and in some years they had a lower acceptance rate than Harvard.
gbMb TIL: A former President of the University of Chicago said that colleges and universities would “find themselves converted into educational hobo jungles” if Congress made it easier for war veterans to attend those institutions.
MeO7A TIL that the originally Irish name prefix “Mc” means “son” and “O’” means “descendant of”
Kl5B TIL that the honorific for an especially skilled driver reacting adequately to an emergency situation in Russia is “железобетонное очко”, meaning “one whose anus is made of reinforced concrete”.