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TIL That the longest piece of literature is a Super Smash Bros. Fanfiction, that has over 4,000,000 words and 220+ chapters.

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9jOm TIL when Edwin Edwards ran for governor against the grand wizard of the KKK, David Duke, people were worried that Edwards would lose because of his indictments for fraud and bribery. Faced with the alternative, people created bumper stickers that read, “Vote for the crook, it’s important.”
QJ8Od TIL in 1929, German doctor Werner Forssmann performed the first human cardiac catheterisation on himself. After ignoring his boss and tricking a nurse into helping him, he inserted a catheter into his right arm before calmly walking to the x-ray department. He was later awarded with the Nobel Prize.
NXxr1 TIL the father of Stephen Paddock, the deadliest mass shooter in US history, was a bank robber who was on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list from 1969 to 1977.
9wM4X TIL that prior to 9/11, the most FDNY firefighters lost in a single day was 12. The 23rd St Fire on October 17, 1966 killed 12 Firefighters when a floor collapsed. A recent renovation to the building had removed a load-bearing wall in the basement to increase storage space for an art dealer tenant.
d8Ye9 TIL a man was arrested for intentionally vomiting on an 11-year-old girl at a Philadelphia Phillies game