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TIL In Samoa it is illegal to forget your wife’s birthday.

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BgeYK TIL that aside from aside from receiving help writing the songs "Soft and Wet" and "My Love is Forever" from Chris Moon and an uncredited string arrangement on "Baby" from Charles Veal, Prince was responsible for the writing and recording of everything on his debut album "For You"
6Egal TIL the battlecruiser SMS Seydlitz sank three times. The third time was because the guy in charge wasn't there when it was raised, so he made them re-sink it so he could get the photo-op.
Bg4ML TIL 'George Washington said before his death "I will never set foot on English soil again" so when they erected a statue of him in London, they put US soil under his statue to honor his claim.'
GAGVJ TIL: The British Secret Service discovered that semen made a great invisible ink while under the leadership of Mansfield Smith-Cumming. His agents adopted the motto, "Every man his own stylo." They later stopped the use due to the smell and questions about agents' masturbatory habits.
kELE TIL That there is a fish called a Barreleye that has a large transparent dome head.