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TIL The Alps are eroding as quickly as they are growing
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TIL In 1976 Monty Python became the top rated show in Japan. The literal translation of the Japanese title was The Gay Dragon Boys Show.
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TIL In 1921 conman Stanley Clifford Weyman posed as a U.S. naval officer and convinced an Afghan Princess to give him $10,000 to set up a meeting with the President. He spent it on travel and lodging for her, and got her a meeting with the President. The ensuing press coverage led to his arrest.
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TIL that the inventor of the frisbee was cremated after his death and was turned into several frisbees. One was thrown on the roof of his memorial museum as a sign of respect.
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TIL that in 2019, Lachlan Murdoch bought the ‘Chartwell Estate’ for approximately 150 million dollars. The Los Angeles based home served as the exterior shots for the mansion used by the Clampetts on the 1960s tv series ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’.
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TIL Emperor I Ferdinand of Austria had 20 seizures per day, and could not speak coherently. The only intelligible sentence he ever spoke during his 13 year reign was: “I am the emperor, and I want dumplings!”