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TIL when asked what he was going to do next after he failed to get his party's nomination for reelection in 1856, Franklin Pierce said, “There’s nothing left to do but get drunk.” He later died of liver failure

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4XAa TIL “When flatworms mate, two "males” use their bifurcated penises to fence one another. The winner, or the flatworm who stabs the other with its penis, remains male while the loser becomes female.“
XD6X TIL the only person killed by an animal in Yosemite National Park was not killed by a bear, mountain Lion or a wolf but by a deer. They also cause the most injuries.
yP0J TIL a man was executed for starting the Great Fire of London after he claimed he threw a fire-bomb through a bakery window. This was despite the fact that he was heavily crippled, the bakery had no windows, and it was proven at his trial that he was not even in the country at the time.
gMPwD TIL The world’s deadliest serial killer, Luis Garavito, admitted to killing 140 people, and was sentenced to 835 years in prison. He was convicted on the deaths of 189 people over 7 years, and is suspected to have murdered many more.
e0WM4 TIL that Ho Chi Minh, Communist Leader of Vietnam, claimed to have worked as a baker in Boston's Omni Parker House hotel in 1912 and that John Wilkes Booth stayed in that same hotel eight days before assassinating President Lincoln.