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TIL that a wife cut off her husband’s penis, tied it to a bunch of balloons and floated it away.

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e104 TIL that the oldest operating school in the world is The King’s School in Canterbury, England, at 1,420 years old. It was founded in AD 597 during the Late Antiquity era, 100 years after the fall of Rome.
PYx4n TIL President Martin Van Buren (born Maarten van Buren) was raised in a Dutch community in Kinderhook, New York and grew up speaking Dutch, not learning English until he went to school. As a result, he is the only president in American history to speak English as a second language.
x678k TIL of the "Demon Cat" that is said to haunt both the US Capitol and White House. The first reports of its presence date back to 1862, and its presence is said to be an ill omen, with sightings presaging both the 1929 Stock Market Crash and JFK's assassination.
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