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QNZZa TIL in 1985, the French President François Mitterrand authorized a state-sponsored terror attack on New Zealand soil, killing a Dutch citizen.
MeQvm TIL that author Douglas Adams once got an offering of £50,000 to write a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy calendar. A few weeks later, having done no work towards it, another call came saying the deal had fallen through but that he would still be paid half the fee. He celebrated with champagne.
kOPrg TIL that King George V of England was euthanized by his physicians with consecutive lethal injections of morphine and cocaine. This was done without his knowledge or consent.
x6JXk TIL Yiannis Kouros won the 1988 Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon (537 mi, 864 km) even though he started 12 hours behind the rest of the field after the organizers of the race challenged him to do so. In total, he won 5 of the 9 times the event was held.
EgbRd TIL Stanley Owen Green (22 February 1915 – 12 December 1993), known as the "Protein Man", was an English human billboard in central London in the latter half of the 20th century. One writer called him "the most famous non-famous person in London".