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TIL A guy faked his own death in order to get out of a Verizon Wireless contract

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nWdWr TIL in 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Italy and marched to Rome, where his army defeated the Papal forces. The 80-year-old Pope Pius VI was arrested for refusing to grant authority to Napoleon. He was taken prisoner and died in captivity 18 months later.
WAjX TIL that Queen, notorious for wild parties, hosted a release party for ‘Jazz’ that included a man biting heads off live chickens, naked models wrestling in a liver pit, and little-people walking about with trays of cocaine strapped to their heads.
7aVL TIL that at approximately 4:10 into Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama”, Ronnie Van Zant can be heard saying “Not my fucking donuts, god damn…”
8e9VG TIL Masi Oka, who played Hiro Nakamura in the TV show Heroes, founded the developer that made the game Outer Wilds.
b7Aa TIL that naked mole rats are practically superheroes - they don’t get cancer, their noses and mouths are unaffected by acid, they live 6x longer than other rodents, they hardly age, they can survive long periods of oxygen deprivation and can live in areas with severe heavy metal pollution.