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TIL that sending a cruel leader with a group of incompetent men on a dangerous, nearly impossible mission, in the hope they would not return, was likely the main reason for the spanish expedition to find "El Dorado" in 1560.

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D1nxe TIL, the last time a Senator was expelled from the Senate was in 1862 when three senators were removed for being Confederate sympathizers
R7mnw TIL Wayne Brady (of Whose Line Is It, Anyway? fame) appeared in a segment on Sesame Street to sing a song about “between”
7r47P TIL a woman accidentally inhaled a condom during oral sex, which lodged into her lungs and caused it to collapse.
WgyB TIL that Tyler Bates, the composer of the Guardians of the Galaxy score and other film scores like 300 and Watchmen, is the guitarist for Marilyn Manson
ADe9l TIL on Jan, 31, 2007, Boston PD mistook LED placards depicting 'The Moonites' for city wide bomb threat.