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TIL That there are decaying heads of 42 American Presidents in Virginia. Lincoln's statue features a sizeable hole on the back of his head.

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njLB TIL Pope Benedict IX was gay, held orgies in the Vatican, was accused of murder and rape, eventually resigned after being paid to do so, and then served a second term as Pope after seizing the title.
8egBa TIL At dawn on Friday October 13, 1307, the soldiers of King Philip IV had all Templars found in France captured.
yVx8 TIL That the all of the water in Great Basin, which covers a large portion of the western US, never flows out.
9YaxX TIL that in the history of AI research there's a time period called as AI winter, it is a period of reduced funding and interest in artificial intelligence research. A few scientists survived that. And currently we're in the AI spring, where AI is doing wonders.
nexOW TIL after Stalin's son Yakov, failed suicide attempt in his room via firearm. He missed his heart and hit his lung instead; while his stepmother Alliluyeva tended to his wound and called the doctor, Stalin is quoted as saying, "He can't even shoot straight".