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TIL Mexican General Santa Anna had an elaborate state funeral for his amputated leg.

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N5M8 TIL that in 1864, Karl Marx wrote a letter to Abraham Lincoln to congratulate him on being re-elected and for fighting the “American Antislavery War”.
EAZd TIL that to decide who would become the monarch of the Persian Empire (44% of world population), six nobles decided on a test. They were to gather outside the palace, mounted on their horses at sunrise, and the man whose horse neighed first in recognition of the rising sun would become king.
4XMKa TIL that Joan Jett, Sherie Currie and Lita Ford were all in a band together called The Runaways.
KYyRa TIL Besides humans, the only mammal known to have a sense of rhythm is the Indri lemur of Madagascar.
VMOPZ TIL that the movie Benji (2018) was made by Blumhouse Productions (the company known for its low budget horror movies like Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and the most recent Halloween).