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TIL Mao Zedong's eldest son was killed by a US napalm strike on North Korea

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GYQYQ TIL that in 1942 an RAF pilot flew to occupied Paris, dropped a huge French flag over the Arc de Triomphe, then shot up Gestapo HQ. It was done to cheer up the French and annoy the Germans.
GAwL4 TIL the existence of the term "scromiting" : the act of screaming while vomiting, linked to the cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. Since there is an intense abdominal pain, the person screams while he/she vomits.
JJLj TIL A man named Barry Landau posed as a presidential historian for years, befriending multiple presidents including Clinton, before it was discovered he was a thief who’d been stuffing his custom-made jackets with priceless documents the entire time
XEVVr TIL President Grover Cleveland first met his future wife Frances when he was 27 and she was a newborn. He bought her a baby carriage and helped raise her following her father's death. He then married her when she turned 21 (he was 49). She remains the youngest wife of a sitting president.
neQV9 TIL It would take 375,000 Lego bricks stacked one on top of another to destroy the bottom brick. The tower would be nearly 12,000 feet tall.