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TIL Zach Galifianakis once asked the grand wizard of the KKK if he’d ever seen Big Momma’s House 3.

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0wVJL TIL that in 1523, Christian II of Denmark was succeeded by Frederick I, who was succeeded by Christian III, who was succeeded by Frederick II and so on till 1972, when Queen Margarethe succeeded her father to the Danish throne. For 449 years, the Danish king was either named Christian or Frederick.
8aemV TIL the Moondance Diner in Manhattan, where playwright and composer of RENT, Johnathan Larson, worked as a waiter for ten years and met Jesse L. Martin (also from RENT), eventually closed due to rising rent.
VBRVk TIL that a company call Biology Resource Center used body parts of donated loved ones to create Frankenstein like builds and sold them for profit
yRoX TIL that the final explosion from Krakatoa measured 310 dB, loud enough to be heard perfectly clearly 3,100 miles away.
E18yd TIL about a 4-foot, hunchbacked, Quaker dwarf named Benjamin Lay, who was a fierce anti-slavery abolitionist. Known as the "Quaker Comet," he used to troll religious elders during meetings and stage bizzare feats of anti-slavery performance art.