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TIL in 1997 Eddie Murphy was observed picking up a transgender prostitute named Shalimar Seiuli. She was arrested on an outstanding warrant but Murphy was let go. He claimed he was just giving her a ride.

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PY4OJ TIL Amerigo Vespucci (and by extension, America) may have been named after St. Emericus of Hungary. St. Emericus died at 24 during a boar hunt, and was only canonized 52 years later after a series of miracles occured at his grave. His bones were dug up for the ceremony.
8a8rb TIL the Demon Core was a piece of plutonium intended to be used in a third atomic bomb to drop on Japan... due to lax saftely standards, its criticality was being regulated with just a screwdriver, and two physicists were killed maintaining it
EgPQx TIL there's a type of ant that effectively explodes itself in a spray of acid in defense of the colony
w1VY TIL many color laser printers employ ‘hidden’ dot codes that encode the serial number of the specific printer on every printed page to make your documents forensically tracecable back to the printer. The EFF believes printer manufacturers agreed in secret with governments to provide this tracking.
b7oE TIL the Napoléonic heir to the French Imperial Throne is an Investment Banking Analyst for Morgan Stanley in New York.