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TIL that Australia was once home to a flightless bird known as the Demon-Duck of Doom

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loJe1 TIL Frederick the Great of Prussia was gay, and it led up to point that his father got his lover beheaded and made him watch whole execution. Reasoning was that he was effeminate and not manly, irony is that he became one of greatest generals of all time.
QPOp TIL a man hired assassins to kill his son’s WoW avatar to get him to stop playing
wLwBY TIL that during the Austro-Prussian War, Liechtenstein had an army of 80 men. During the conflict no men were injured or killed and they returned home with 81 men because they’d made an Italian friend along the way. The army was then disbanded and Liechtenstein hasn’t had a military since.
Mvga TIL that Ryan Phillippe found the scene in Cruel Intentions where he had to fight with Reese Witherspoon (his real-life fiancée) so emotionally punishing that, after it was over, he went outside and threw up.
R7B5a Today I learned Cap'n Crunch's real name is Captain Horatio Magellan crunch