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TIL Gerald Ford used to tell his friends: "I know I will go to hell, because I pardoned Richard Nixon."

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7V0x TIL: That a man in the 60’s starved himself for a year under medical supervision and survived. He lost 275 lbs!
4XZy6 TIL the first on-screen lesbian kiss on American TV came on the legal series L.A. Law in 1991
e0j1E TIL that Mr. Toad has a headstone in the pet cemetery at the Haunted Mansion in Magic Kingdom at Disney World as a tribute to the now extinct Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
d8Wnr TIL that three would-be rhino poachers got eaten by lions before they could steal any horns.
D1dlD TIL of the Night Witches, a female only Soviet bomber regiment during World War 2. They would fly high up in their quieter WW1 bombers, cut their engines, and bomb the German front line in the middle of the night. This earned them the nickname "Nachthexen" by the Germans.