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TIL there is a fully legitimate German beer named Fucking Hell. It’s named after the Austrian village ‘Fucking’, and the german word 'hell’, a term used for light ale. Because of this, the name was granted.

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6EBL8 TIL Pope Urban VII was the shortest serving Pope in history; living only 12 days after his election. In his short reign, he instituted the world’s first known smoking ban, threatening to excommunicate anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church”. He died of Malaria.
k9M7 TIL - the navy is now teaching sailors Celestial Navigation as a response to potential cyber attacks to ship navigation systems.
kO9EB TIL the TV show 'You' starring Penn Badgley is actually a Lifetime network TV series
E1n9x TIL Charles Bronson, tough guy actor of classic films like The Magnificent Seven and Death Wish, grew up in abject poverty, the 11th of 15 kids. His family was so poor he once had to wear his sister's dress to school. When he was 16, he mined coal for $1 per ton.
BreEy TIL an EPA employee was convicted of defrauding the agency of $800,000 for skipping work over the course of 11 years by pretending to be a CIA agent.