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

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eJJ4 TIL when Three Six Mafia beat out Dolly Parton to win the 2006 Academy Award for Best Original Song, Dolly was thrilled, and personally sent a congratulatory letter, “We’re proud of you guys, and I’m just glad that the Oscar came back to Tennessee one way or another!”
BgoNr TIL that Nobel Prize-winning novelist Camilo José Cela was infamous for his scandalous remarks. He once claimed he could absorb liters of water via his anus and offered to demonstrate. He also called the Cervantes Prize, Spain's top literary award, "covered with shit," despite accepting it in 1995.
R7R71 TIL according to the protocols of the Post Detection Policy, once an extraterrestrial civilization has been detected or identified, no single individual state or entity is to make contact. Communications must be voted on and presented on behalf of the entire human species as a unit.
1aPkd TIL: Archaeologist Alexander Peev was executed by firing squad in 1943 on suspicion of sending a coded message to the Soviet Union. It was actually an ancient inscription he wanted Russian archaeologists to help him interpret. The text remains undeciphered.
owoY TIL - in 1910, President Roosevelt supported a bill that would have released hippopotamuses into Louisiana to eat an invasive plant species and to provide delicious hippo bacon to hungry Americans.