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TIL about Rishi Sharma, who is going around interviewing every WW2 vet he can before they all die.

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wopx1 TIL that in 1671, a man named François Vatel was in charge of a 2000-person banquet to be held in the honor of Louis XIV. Vatel became distraught after a delivery of seafood was late, driving him to take his own life by running himself through his sword.
R7ZY1 TIL the USSR tried to blackmail a gay US journalist with photos of him having sex with a Soviet spy, but he refused to cooperate and reported the incident to the CIA. When the Soviets sent the photos to prominent journalists, they all refused to out him.
eVK4 TIL the inventor of the chocolate chip cookie cashed in on its massive success and sold the recipe, but only sold it for a lifetime supply of chocolate
PYr5G TIL a cow from Bulgaria was almost killed because it wandered off outside the EU borders lacking the necessary paperwork.
ploZ TIL in 1887, a mathematician received a prize for his work on the stability of the solar system. A year later, after finding an error in his own work, he published a paper contradicting it, which led to the development of chaos theory.