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TIL when President Charles De Gaulle visited Harold McMillan at his home in Birch Grove in 1961, the French Secret Service put a special fridge in the coach house filled with De Gaulle's blood in case of an assassination attempt. A Daily Mail reporter was also bitten on his behind by a police dog.

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P1KkO TIL that a monkey named Jocko Flocko was the co-driver for stock car racer Tim Flock for 8 races in 1953. Two weeks after becoming the only NASCAR-winning monkey, Jocko was euthanized after getting out of his seatbelt and hit in the head with a pebble during what became his final race
jNnjE TIL that MLK thought that the white moderate was the greatest stumbling block in the stride towards freedom
AKBn TIL in 1981 Steve Wozniak returned to the University of California, Berkeley, under the alias Rocky Clark, to finally complete his electrical engineering degree after his success at Apple.
D1LeP TIL that Ricky Gervais started a New Wave group in thr early 80's called Seona Dancing. Their song "More To Lose" was a huge hit in The Philippines but the group only lasted two years before breaking up.
JY46V TIL in 1964 an icy runway caused a taxiing B-58 bomber to flop over and topple onto its fuel tanks. This ignited 14,000 gallons of blended gasoline and kerosene and barbecued the bomber’s nuclear payload…including a 9-megaton bomb powerful enough to flash fry any exposed human within 20 miles.