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TIL The creator of Sailor Moon is married to the creator of Hunter X Hunter

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4kLA5 TIL of Louis, Duc D’Orléans, the brother of King Charles the VII who accidently set fire to 6 dancers at his brother's party with a torch. 4 of the 6 dancers died. One jumped into a wine barrel and the King who was one of the dancers was saved by his niece when she covered him with her dress.
vdN7 TIL that Mythbuster’s Grant Imahara built the R2-D2 in Star Wars Ep.1&2, and the Energizer Bunny
mxjXO TIL while Benjamin Franklin was in Paris during the American Revolution, his secretary was a British spy. The spy used the cover of weekly letters about “gallantry” (exploits with women). He would write in-between the lines in a special ink and leave the letter in a dead drop every Tuesday night.
BZjD TIL that when Ronald Reagan was suffering from Alzheimer’s he used to rake the leaves out of his family pool, not knowing that his secret service men were replenishing the leaves.
BPay TIL A zoo in Japan once spent four years trying to mate a pair of hyenas before realizing they were both males, due to how similar a female pseudo penis is to a real one.