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TIL that US president George H.W. Bush vomited on then prime minister of Japan.

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JYLml TIL that in 2003 Brandon Vedas live-streamed his own drug overdose & death while people told him to take more on IRC chatroom. One of his last sentences, as he took more, going unconscious and dying, was: "I told u I was hardcore". His mother was in the next room, thinking he was asleep.
VMlKp TIL The United States has been in a state of national emergency ever since September 14, 2001
nW4X7 TIL German Chocolate Cake is named after an American "Samuel German"
8alwa TIL that when Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a Soviet sniper, was being promoted for 257 confirmed kills against the invading Germans her acceptance speech was simply "I'll get more".
keNd TIL Ex-Prime Minister of Australia Bob Hawke once held the world-speed record for beer drinking. In his memoirs he suggested that this single feat may have contributed to his political success more than any other, by endearing him to a voting population with a strong beer culture.