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TIL That In the 1991 elections for the governor of Louisiana, voters had to decide between a corrupt politician, Edwin Edwards, and the grand wizard of the KKK, David Duke, with slogans like Vote for the lizard, not the wizard" and “Vote for the crook. It’s important.”

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grlYW TIL that the skin on our LIPS and ANUS is the same. Because the Lips and the Anus are the two ends of the pipe called the alimentary Canal.
QN8aL TIL the origin of the British National Anthem is believed by some to have originated in a prayer made for French King Louis XIV when he had an anal fistula
ZEAv TIL that between 2000 and 2010 as many as a dozen people in the Philippines were shot to death while singing Frank Sinatra songs at karaoke bars. The deaths are referred to as ‘The My Way Killings’.
gM1d7 TIL "Stagecoach Mary" was the first African-American woman mail carrier in the USA. She worked the route 8 years and never missed a day. She won the contract because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of 6 horses (she was 60 years old at the time).
KYEv6 TIL that Daggit the robotic dog in the 1970's Battlestar Galactica was played by a chimpanzee in a suit.