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TIL King Zog of Albania survived 55 assasination attempts

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YkKW TIL that there is an actual medical term called “Sense of Impending Doom”
abrJ TIL Michael Jackson’s autopsy report confirms he tattooed his lips pink and his eyebrows black. He was also partially bald and wore wigs to conceal it, with the front of his scalp also being tattooed black.
9Y8dX TIL The term "bug" to describe a runtime error was popularized when in 1947 engineers discovered their program on a Harvard University Mark II computer was not working because a moth was stuck in one of the relays. They taped the bug into their engineering log book, still preserved today.
VgdQ TIL Hunter S. Thompson and Richard Nixon had a conversation about football for over an hour in Nixon’s car, after which Thompson almost accidentally blew up Nixon’s plane with a cigarette
WknN9 TIL: Many Major World Cities are About to Run Out of Water