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TIL that the same $99 microphone has been used by every US president since 1965

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OoaNR TIL about Grigori Perelman the mathematician who solved the Poincare Conjecture one of the 7-millennium problems and denied the million dollar prize money as well as the fields medal. Rest of the 6 still remain unsolved.
8aXDa TIL of Louis de Bourbon, Count of Soissons who after betraying Louis XIII and succesfully beat his army at the Battle of La Marfée, accidentally killed himself when lifting the visor of his helmet with his pistol after the battle was over
6EeaX TIL Greek statues have small penises because small penises were more culturally valued and large penises were associated with very specific characteristics: foolishness, lust and ugliness.
Djog TIL that 12 people have walked on the moon but only 3 people have been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench
nebxb TIL In 1940, Churchill and De Gaulle briefly supported merging France and Britain into a single nation, with joint citizenship, a single currency, and a constitution.