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TIL Louise-Marie-Thérèse passed gas while she was dying. She uttered “Good. A woman who can fart is not dead” and then died.

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N7gDe TIL Adélie penguins have been observed to engage in necrophilia, as young males often cannot tell the difference between compliant and dead females. This was first observed in 1912 but was deemed too shocking, and so was only rediscovered in 2012.
8axKb TIL the tall cone-shaped “princess hat” is called a hennin. They originated with the warrior queens of Mongolia and became fashionable in Europe after Marco Polo brought one back from his travels.
Zj9Y TIL at a sound check before the address, Reagan made the following joke to the radio technicians: “My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
DZVp TIL that all modern color printers print a secret, nearly invisible code onto every page to allow governments to track the serial number and timestamps
KGGJ TIL there is a community in Canada that has achieved 97% of their heating through solar power.