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TIL that monarchs had people who monitored their bowel movements, and assisted with the action. The position was considered extremely sought after and powerful and was called, "The Groom of The Stool."

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P9BO TIL that the first American civil war reenactors were actually veterans of the war.
Y7V9x TIL that Mbaye Diagne was a UN peacekeeper who disobeyed his orders to stand down during the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. Acting entirely on his own initiative, he embarked on rescue missions. Diagne is credited with singlehandedly saving the lives of as many as 1000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
Lkwxv TIL that the mathematician Augustus De Morgan, writing in 1864, noted that he had the distinction of being x years old in the year x-squared.
oRrlW TIL the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania allows vertical oriented license plates for motorcycles, with numbers being read top-down rather than left-right
lGpN TIL that the company that created Zyklon B, the gas that was used to kill millions of Jews in the Holocaust, still exists as a pest control company.