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TIL the recently deposed leader of Niger is named Mohamed Bazoum!

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ZJyR TIL Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan’s daughter have all claimed to have seen Abraham Lincoln’s ghost in the White House.
gMJ58 TIL a 25-barrel gun was used in an assassination attempt on the King of France in 1835. It fired over 400 projectiles at once and killed 18 people. The assassin was badly injured by exploding barrels, and tracked down by the trail of blood.
jlpE TIL Doritos were invented at Disneyland
D1X6V TIL English rock band 10cc’s 1975 mini-operetta “Une Nuit A Paris” became an inspiration for both Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and the overture for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera.”
N5y1 TIL there is an alternate full length Anchorman movie called “Wake Up Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie” made up of scenes that didn’t make the final cut.