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TIL that Switzerland is the only country that has seven heads of state.

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5Kdr TIL to join The 300 Club, when the outside temperature at the South Pole is less than -73C (-100F), it’s traditional to get in a sauna at 93C (200F) and then run around the South Pole naked. Thus experiencing a 300 degree Fahrenheit temperature difference.
XEmJQ TIL of the Chichijima Incident. During an air raid in Japan during WW2, 9 American airmen were shot down, with 8 of which captured, tortured and murdered (5 of which cannibalised). The only one who survived was George H.W. Bush, a then 20 year old pilot.
5V0ER TIL that some Catholic priest pedos DO face justice within the US
b9j07 TIL of Field Marshal Garnet Wolseley, who fought in multiple theatres of the Empire ranging from Canada to Ghana, whose efficiency in battle led to the phrase "everything's all Sir Garnet", meaning "All is in order."
GYnxN TIL that a New York bound flight from LA was forced to make an emergency landing when a woman would not stop singing Whitney Houston's "I will always love you" in midair