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TIL that DARPA honored Val Kilmer by popping popcorn with a super powerful laser

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grjB4 TIL One term at the signoria, the government of the republic of Florence, was only two months long. Its members were not elected but randomly selected from a pot of eligible names. During their term, the priors were required to abandon their private business and live full time at the city hall
1aoe8 TIL a lifetime Cleveland Browns fan and season ticket holder requested in his obituary for "six Cleveland Browns pallbearers" at his funeral. His reasoning- So the Browns can let him down one last time.
7rDjp TIL that there is exactly one place in the British Isles to have a name with an exclamation point in its name.
m1NWv TIL: People used to believe that the blood of the freshly executed was a health tonic and would pay executioners a little money to let them drink it warm.
pOvN TIL that the Bananas we eat today are all clones of one another and they might go extinct because there’s no genetic diversity.