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TIL that Charles de Gaulle said of France, “How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?”

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1alVV TIL that Kurt Vonnegut adopted his sister’s three sons after she died of cancer two days after her husband died in a train accident.
KJ46 TIL despite its reputation, the black widow spider’s bite very rarely kills humans and has accounted for 0 deaths despite nearly 2,000 bites annually.
X0naQ TIL when East Germany reunified with West Germany in 1990, the German government withdrew East Germany banknotes from circulation, but instead of burning them, they let them rot in a concrete bunker until two people broke in and stole a large quantity of notes in 2001. Then what was left was burned.
KO8EE TIL Doctors' sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually in the United States
Oomd4 TIL about Thomas Aikenhead who, at 20 years of age, became the last person executed in Great Britain on a charge of blasphemy. Aikenhead was accused of referring to theology as "ill-invented nonsense" while conversing with friends at the University of Edinburgh.