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TIL that Rene Auberjonois, who played Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space 9, is the fourth great nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte

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nWBrW TIL that there is a death metal band whose lead vocalist is a grey parrot. Their name is Hatebeak.
BOEL TIL in a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them.
W7Jk8 TIL Childhood trauma can speed biological aging.
GALM5 TIL in 2007, Hamburg Mannheimer International (HMI), now part of Munich Re, held a party in Budapest with 20 prostitutes to reward 100 of its best salesmen
9mYG TIL of David Kootook, a 14 year old Inuit boy who survived for 23 days in -40 degree weather after a plane crash in the Arctic. He refused offers by the pilot to eat the body of a fellow passenger and died of starvation 23 days later. Upon rescue, the pilot said “Welcome to the camp of a cannibal.”