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TIL The Original Star Trek's theme song had lyrics.
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JYpaQ
TIL that the French King, Lois XIV owned a collection of 413 beds in several places all over France, so that he could sleep in his own bed, no matter where he traveled.
RWQ7
TIL - A hacker in the 70’s (John Draper) found that a toy whistle in the cereal Cap'n Crunch blew at the same frequency that was used by AT&T long lines to indicate that a trunk line was ready the route a new call, essentially allowing him to make free long distance calls.
o5Z7
TIL Yogendra Singh Yadav, a soldier of the Indian army, climbed up a vertical, snow-covered cliff face while under machine gun and rocket fire. Despite taking three bullets, he managed to finish the climb, grenade a bunker and then kill four enemy soldiers in hand to hand combat.
ne0p9
TIL about the Maxi Trial. Held in Italy between 1986 and 1992, it convicted 338 mafiosi including 19 bosses, the latter of whom all got life sentences. It was the largest trial of all time. The two (Italian equivalent of) lead prosecutors and several judges were murdered afterwards.
BrMKK
TIL The Indiana State Prison system usually gives condemned inmates their last meal about two days early because "they typically aren't as hungry on the day they are to die"