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TIL A Chinese Emperor escaped an assassination attempt by running in circles around a pilar

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OoOoa TIL that in 2005 a group of reporters swab tested 46 bathrooms in the EU parlament for traces of drugs. 41 of them tested positive for cocaine.
r5jW TIL Futurama is named after an exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair that showed what they thought the world would be like in 1959
m1JVy TIL: The Inaccessible Island Rail (laterallus rogersi) has evolved to be the world’s smallest flightless bird on a remote island free from predators. The introduction of a few mating pairs of rats would likely decimate the rail’s population.
V4rm TIL LifeLock’s CEO, Todd Davis, who famously advertised his company’s services by displaying his social security number in ads, has had his identity stolen 13 times.
nP4B TIL The founder of Mother’s day was so disgusted with its commercialization that she collected petitions to rescind Mother’s Day and spent the rest of her life trying to abolish the holiday she founded, only to end up in a sanitarium supported by contributions from the hated Florists Exchange.