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TIL Axl Rose tried to beat up David Bowie on the set of a bondage rock & roll video because he was flirting with his girlfriend

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b9r6N TIL when Japanese ultranationalists and militaries attempted a coup in 1932 they intended to also kill Charlie Chaplin
QJPMd TIL when Reagan was shot, HW Bush as Vice President was advised by his aides to proceed directly to the White House by helicopter as an image of the government still functioning. Bush rejected the idea, responding, "Only the President lands on the South Lawn."
YpdOB TIL the word "dunce" comes from "Dunses"- followers of John Duns Scotus, a highly respected 13th century Scottish Scholastic theologian and philosopher who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1993.
x6BRk TIL that Polio is one of only two diseases currently the subject of a global eradication program, the other being Guinea worm disease. So far, the only diseases completely eradicated by humankind are smallpox, declared eradicated in 1980, and rinderpest, declared eradicated in 2011.
0wvr1 TIL, Britain has invaded ALL but 22 countries in the entire world, 9 out of every 10!