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TIL that the First Drunk Driver Smashed His Electric Cab Into A Building 127 Years Ago

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nemWB TIL of USMC Sergeant Wirkus who was crowned king of a Haitian island for 3 years where he was stationed until he was transferred back to the US mainland by the Marines.
R7DO8 TIL That former astronaut Scott Parazynski took a moon rock to the top of Mount Everest. He took the moon rock and a rock from the top of Mount Everest and gave them to then current astronaut George Zamka. He then took both rocks into space on the International Space Station.
mxPrp TIL that Hawaiian Pizza was not invented in Hawaii, but rather by a Greek-Canadian in Chatham, Ontario, Canada in 1962
OoBxY TIL in Japanese, the term for somebody who dual wields swords is “ryoutoutsukai”, "two sword user", which is also a term for bisexuality.
4kpVg TIL using ditto marks, or putting quotation marks under words to repeat what they say, goes back as far as the Neo-Assyrian period (934-608 B.C.)