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TIL the Iranian Embassy in Washington, D.C. in the 1970s was an extravagant nonstop party-house that attracted movie stars, politicians, and socialites alike to partake in endless decadence and hedonism, from champagne and caviar to sexual favors and recreational drugs

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MeOrm TIL British WWI Prisoner of war was released by the Germans so that he could visit his dying mother, and then returned as he had made promise to the Kaiser Wilhelm II.
LBOP TIL that goats have rectangular pupils that allow them to see 320 degrees around their head, with no blind spot.
N7jjP TIL During an interview with Stephen Hawking, the camera operator yanked a cable causing an alarm and Hawking to slump forward. Worried they had killed him, everyone rushed over to find Hawking giggling at his own joke. The alarm was from an office computer losing power.
kaj4 TIL that Nick News With Linda Ellerbee is still running after twenty years on Nickelodeon, and Ellerbee has never missed a show.
KY98B TIL that Hennessy, the French Cognac, was first distilled by an Irishman