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TIL, Billy Joel doesn't sell the front-row seats to his shows. He gives them away to random people from the worst seats so the real fans are in front of him instead of just wealthy people.

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8KJa TIL Emperor I Ferdinand of Austria had 20 seizures per day, and could not speak coherently. The only intelligible sentence he ever spoke during his 13 year reign was: “I am the emperor, and I want dumplings!”
MeOK0 TIL that cruise ships have morgues on board
M7GN7 TIL that a piece of a giant squid was recovered by the French ship Alecton in 1861, leading English naturalist Henry Lee and others to come to the conclusion that giant squids were responsible for the legend of the Kraken.
DyLg TIL that comic book characters come back to life after dying so often that they are aware of the likely resurrections. Professor X said “in mutant heaven there are no pearly gates, but instead revolving doors.” After one X-Man died, his daughter refused to mourn him because he’d be alive again.
5gAD TIL Former Liberian President, Charles King, is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for the most fraudulent election reported in history, having won the 1927 election with 234,000 votes in a country with 15,000 registered voters