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TIL Hello Kitty has a boyfriend named "Dear Daniel"

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ADO5d TIL of chess boxing. Alternating between 3 minutes of chess and 3 minutes of boxing until achieving knockout in one of them.
wLL47 TIL that lottery winners in Australia can choose to remain annonymous after an 8 yr was kidnapped for ransom then murdered after the father won a lottery in 1960.
v1W8r TIL In 1802, Napoleon added a Polish legion to fight off the slave rebellion in Haiti. However, the Polish army joined the Haitian slaves in the fight for independence. Haiti's first head of state called Polish people "the White Negroes of Europe", which was then regarded as a great honour.
Z8Nwo TIL in 1927, during the worst flood in the history of the Mississippi River Valley, Herbert Hoover and the Red Cross set up "concentration camps" comprised of African Americans forced to work at gunpoint on the levee, and created a media campaign to cover it up.
R5kpw TIL the worst hydrogen airship disaster in history is NOT the 1937 Hindenburg disaster. In 1930, 48 of 54 passengers on a experimental British Airship were killed in a crash during a storm over France. Of the 97 passengers on the Hindenburg there were 35 fatalities, plus one ground crew death.