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TIL that President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote three pages of detailed instructions for how his funeral should proceed, and locked them in the White House safe. They weren’t discovered until after he was buried.

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loEer TIL that in 2012 a Hong Kong billionaire Cecil Chao announced to offered $65m to any man able to woo and marry his lesbian daughter Gigi Chao. He later doubled his offer to $130m. After this Gigi said in an open letter that "I think I'll marry a man when he marries a man."
M7Mom TIL- That the 'Mansi photograph' has been called, by National Geographic, by experts, and by cryptozoologists, the best photograph of a Lake Monster ever taken. It was taken 46 years ago and has never been debunked!
Oom1a TIL, Shaggy's 'It Wasn't Me' was rescued from obscurity by a DJ in Honolulu who downloaded it from Napster since MCA execs were ignoring his requests for a copy
8aKBa TIL that people would have sex in graveyards to “laugh in the face of death”, during the Black Death. It became illegal and people were threatened with excommunication. It was thought that sexual immorality caused the plague, so prostitution and adultery were outlawed.
e0eBn TIL: In a report from 2013, most of the funds raised by the NFL don't fund cancer research. In the end, after everybody has taken their cut, only 8.01% of money spent on pink NFL merchandise is actually going towards cancer research.