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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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O9j4 TIL That in the game Myth II: Soulblighter, due to a bug in the installer, if the game wasn’t installed into the default directory and instead into a different one, when attempting to uninstall it the uninstaller would delete the computer’s entire hard drive.
9w5m TIL just 2 days after Nikola Tesla’s death, the FBI ordered the Office of Alien Property (OAP) to seize all of his belongings, even though Tesla was an American citizen. The “Alien Property Custodian” was an office of the US Government that was in charge of the property that belonged to US enemies.
EKBV TIL that “The Effects of Peanut Butter on the Rotation of the Earth”, a study co-authored by hundreds of physicists, is only one sentence long: “So far as we can determine, peanut butter has no effect on the rotation of the earth.”
a8njN TIL the series "Schoolhouse Rock!" was the idea of an ad executive who noticed his young son was struggling with learning multiplication tables, yet had no problem memorizing lyrics. He asked Bob Dourough to set them to music. This ended up becoming the song "Three is a magic number".
VB7XG TIL Neolithic Age humans performed successful brain surgery.