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TIL Frank Sinatra was an avid drinker of Jack Daniels and was actually buried with a bottle of JD and a pack of Camel cigarettes

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OoVB4 TIL Davy Crockett was born in a non-existent state called Franklin, later incorporated into Tennessee
W9y4 TIL In 1966 a Beluga whale swam up the Rhine river (Germany) as far as Bonn. The skippers who first saw the whale had to take blood alcohol tests after reporting it.
8YaX TIL: The inauguration of US president Andrew Jackson was an open party at the white house. The public got drunk and trashed the place, and could only be removed by tempting them out with bowls of punch on the lawn outside.
78Lxr TIL that Helium is the only element that is not a metal with the -ium suffix and it’s because Helium was named before -ium was used to indicate metals.
oByd8 TIL about Castrator barnacles, a species that feminizes male crabs after parasitically taking control of their reproductive physiology. This causes the male crab to grow ovaries, develop female behaviors, and care for the barnacle's egg sack as its own.