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TIL April 17 is National Horny Day

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a8wKJ TIL of French President Paul Deschanel, who fell out of the window of his sleeping compartment. He was discovered wandering about in the dark, in his pyjamas, claiming to be the President of France, in 1920.
7roEb TIL an Italian doctor made up a fake infectious disease, Syndrome K, to hide Jewish people fleeing from the Nazis in his Rome hospital
yVY18 TIL WW1 ended at 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. The last trench veteran of WW1, Harry Patch, died on July 25 2009, aged 111 years, 1 month, 1 week and 1 day
0da5y TIL the US Post Office issued stamp on 13 May 1918 to mark the first official airmail flight, featuring an image of a “Curtiss Jenny” biplane. A printing error caused the plane to be shown flying upside down. Only one "Inverted Jenny" sheet was printed, making those stamps extremely rare.
e0mWg TIL that in 1962, Miriam Margolyes (the actress who plays Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films) was the first person to say "fuck" on British television