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TIL that Solid Snake was named after Snake Plissken and imagined to have the body of Jean-Claude Van Damme and the face of a young Christopher Walken.

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oBJpr TIL vocal jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald was born with perfect pitch so precise that the band musicians she worked with would tune their instruments to her voice.
oBj78 TIL During the French Revolution the traditional court cards were replaced with Liberties, Equalities and Fraternities.
dDegr TIL in 1926, President Calvin Coolidge's family was gifted a raccoon for Thanksgiving. They raised it as a pet in the White House, complete with a collar inscribed "White House Raccoon." After their tenure, the raccoon was moved to live in a zoo.
ZpgEG TIL Marie-Antoinette was once hit by human waste being thrown out the window as she walked through an interior courtyard
d8Ad9 TIL that on the WWII memorial in Washington DC, in an unassuming spot there is a drawing of ‘Kilroy Was Here’ which was a meme of the time.