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TIL The Beverly Hillbillies had a third verse that wasn't on the show

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wx5E TIL that during the Napoleonic wars, a french ship wrecked off the coast of Hartlepool. The only survivor being a Monkey in a french uniform. Since the locals had never seen a Monkey nor a Frenchman before, they concluded the monkey was a french spy and hanged the monkey.
RnLa TIL the Boy Scouts of America helped child molesters cover their tracks and kept records in documents known internally as “The Perversion Files”.
EgEd7 TIL 41 years ago, today, 3 people died on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983); under the negligent direction of John Landis, after he ordered a helicopter's tail-rotor directly over staged FX explosives. Bringing down the copter, decapitating two and crushing the other to death.
Zpg5v TIL that France maintains possessions of several islands less than 20 miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon
x66l0 TIL The American Civil War not only killed nearly 1 million soliders, it also had many addicted to morphine. Coca-Cola was introduced to try to help them overcome their addiction.