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TIL that by law, no United States officer can outrank George Washington. He was posthumously promoted to Six-Star General in 1976.

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4kkKJ TIL There have been more fatalities (265) in the Isle Of Man TT than there has been races (101).
9mkX TIL a woman placed a severed finger, belonging to an associate of her husband, into her Wendy’s chili in order to sue the company. She was convicted and sentenced to 9 years in prison
woEv1 TIL that between the death of James Garfield on September 19, 1881, and October 11, 1881, Chester A. Arthur served as Chairman of the New York Republican Party while simultaneously serving as the President of the United States.
R7ok8 TIL of Juan Luna, a painter who killed his wife and her mother in Paris in 1892, because he suspected his wife of having had an affair. He was arrested but acquitted on the basis of temporary insanity. At the time in France there was an “unwritten law” that forgave men for killing unfaithful wives.
5419 TIL that the Danish monarchy is over 1000 years old, making it the oldest monarchy in Europe that still exists today.