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TIL that "re-elected" Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro worked as a bus driver before joining politics

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l7Boa TIL that the song “I Just Had Sex” by The Lonely Island is played “unironically” in public in countries such as Vietnam and Thailand; bandmate Akiva Schaffer noting “The nuance…would be lost if English wasn’t your first language”
oRVJo TIL in 1983 Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield threw a ball at a seagull while warming up between innings, killing it. Afterward he was charged with cruelty to animals. Manager Billy Martin, "It's the first time he's hit the cutoff man all season."
GA4Pj TIL that a Greek man living in Canada who specialized in Chinese food invented the Hawaiian pizza
69E8W TIL that in April of 1861, Former President Franklin Pierce wrote to the other living former presidents and asked them to consider meeting to use their stature and influence to propose a negotiated end to the war. However, this idea was ultimately never acted on.
Jexj TIL there’s a whole conspiracy theory about NASA hiding a “second sun”