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TIL that all US Presidents, but one, share the ancestor King John Lackland who signed the Magna Carta in 1215.

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D1Olj TIL than in the 1800's, Americans drank, on average, 90 bottles of whiskey per year, or 1.7 bottles per week. This was because at the time, whiskey was sold at twenty-five cents a gallon, making it cheaper than wine, beer, tea, coffee and even milk.
VDlG TIL in 1955 a woman in Morocco went into labor, and needed a c-section. Terrified of the surgery she fled the hospital and never gave birth. 46 years later, stomach pains revealed the now calcified ‘stone’ baby in her womb.
lXQ5 TIL that a woman died at her own funeral from a heart attack caused by shock when she woke up and saw that she was in a coffin about to be buried alive.
0Ywv TIL that an ancient Vietnamese prince won his country’s throne because he made fantastic rice cakes.
Lk7YP TIL that there is a man named Christopher who can speak sixteen languages - despite having non-verbal IQ scores between 40 and 70. He was diagnosed with brain damage six months after his birth, and is institutionalized because he is unable to take care of himself