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6yO7 TIL that in 1966 French President Charles de Gaulle demanded that all American military personnel leave France. American President Lyndon Johnson asked if that order applied to American soldiers in French cemeteries.
kOV8d TIL that suicide method often has less to do with level of suicidal intent and more to do with ease of access to their chosen method
myEv TIL that in 2013 a 200-year-old law was removed in Paris that forbid women from wearing pants.
yVoXv TIL a US train company plans to connect major Northeast metropolitan hubs, including a one-hour service from DC to NYC, with the world's fastest high-speed trains (operational speed of 310 mph - 500 km/h)
kJx8m TIL for 358 years mathematicians attempted to solve an equation scribbled in the margin of a text book with a note they had a proof but was "too large to fit in the margin". It's still debated today whether Fermat had a solution in 1637 or wrote that just to entice other mathematicians