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TIL that former Kenya first lady Lucy Kibaki once forced her husband to call a press conference, solely to declare that he only had one wife, Lucy.

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D15Be TIL That President Andrew Jackson owned a parrot named Poll. When Jackson died Poll was present at his funeral, but had to be removed due to "Swearing and yelling profanities" that he learned from Jackson himself
YDeZ TIL There is a clock in New Zealand that has been running since 1864 despite never having been manually wound.
Wkv0B TIL Irish people originally had black hair. Red hair genes come from Vikings who settled in the 8th to 11th Centuries.
nVMB TIL Lay’s WOW chips were recalled because they made people literally shit their pants
X077j TIL about the Phantom Time Hypothesis, a conspiracy that suggests that the AD dating system was fabricated to place Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, Pope Sylvester II, and Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII at 1000 AD. According to this, the years AD 614 - 911 (the early Middle Ages) never happened.