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TIL A Man walked the 19,000-mile coastline of the UK

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8eexG TIL in 1945 a Nazi U-boat was destroyed because of a malfunctioning toilet
YpQBG TIL Vincent Van Gogh may not have killed himself, but may have been accidentally shot by two boys and instead he covered up for them by claiming that it was suicide so they would not get in trouble.
RbXQ TIL the CIA attempted to discredit Castro by making his beard fall off.
6Eeel TIL that Senator Daniel Webster turned down two offers to be vice president by William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor because he thought the office was a dead-end position. Both these presidents went on to die in office.