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TIL that due to a bug in the Constitution, if the Vice President is impeached he will preside over his own trial

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oB5XA TIL that the person who is largely credited for inventing the polygraph machine is the same person who created Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth.
ADxZ7 TIL that in funerals costing thousands, the Toraja sacrifice 24 buffaloes on an average and the last breath of a water buffalo signifies the official death of the deceased relative. They believe that the more of them are sacrificed, the faster the soul of the departed will find its way to heaven.
5VDKn TIL that well over 99% of the known 5,000,000,000+ species that have ever lived on Earth are extinct
8e0pa TIL about the Davis Gun, a WW1 era attempt to create a recoilless gun by having two guns fire forwards and backwards simultaneously. A third gun was sometimes attached to the top
XWlE TIL in 2012 Drake had his security team threaten a tattoo artist in his shop, while Drake sat in the car outside.