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TIL that those wounded while fighting in the French Foreign Legion can immediately apply to be a French citizen as they are "French by spilled blood".

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69Y18 TIL that Stephen Hawking had a great sense of humor. Addressing the rumor that Stephen Hawking would deliberately run over the toes of people he didn’t like. He denied this rumor by stating it was “A false rumor” and “I’ll run over anyone who repeats it”. 😂
BrYLy TIL that NYC smells bad because of a slapdash real-estate based city plan that omitted alleys
D0QJ TIL that the 17-minute long psychedelic rock song In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, by Iron Butterfly, was originally named In the Garden Of Eden. The lead singer was so high, drunk, or both that he slurred the words, creating the title.
9YVd6 TIL "Blocks found with dates from all seasons in the Egyptian calendar suggest the pyramids were built year-round and not just when the Nile was in flood."
R598j TIL the skeleton of Josef Mengele, the German doctor who conducted horrific experiments on thousands of Jews at Auschwitz, is stored at the São Paulo Institute for Forensic Medicine, where it is used as an educational aid.