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TIL that Victor Hugo visited prostitutes so frequently that during his funeral, almost all the brothels in Paris closed to mourn their best client.

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jllN TIL Charles Darwin was accepted on H.M.S. Beagle because he agreed to search for Noah’s ark and find evidence of the great flood mentioned in the Bible