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TIL that the French foreign legion maintains its own vineyard, with wine created by the retired legionnaires, and sold to support the villa.

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e51b TIL when John McAfee was asked if he personally uses McAfee anti-virus he replied by saying “I take it off,” and that “It’s too annoying.”
1EQ8 TIL that portions of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s doctoral dissertation were posthumously found to have been plagiarized verbatim from other sources.
dEXB TIL that the fictional material “Transparent Aluminium”, in the 1986 film Star Trek IV, became an experimental reality in 2009
dDD6E TIL thst whales used to walk on 4 legs and basically deevolved to go back to the ocean some 50 million years ago
NXXWb TIL that the Sesame Street song "Rubber Duckie" peaked at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on September 26th, 1970. It also reached #10 in Australia.