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TIL that in 2023, a 45-year-old Belgian man named David Baerten faked his own death, but then showed up to his own funeral to teach his family a “life lesson.” He was reportedly dismayed that his family had grown apart.

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x6N4o TIL Julius Evola, an Italian philosopher, would regularly walk around the city during bombing raids to "ponder his destiny". During one such aerial bombardment in 1945, a shell fragment damaged his spinal cord and he became paralysed from the waist down, remaining so for the rest of his life.
W7YKo TIL Will Smith opened a k-6 grade school with deep ties to Scientology
rNO4M TIL about the Avignon Papacy, a time between 1309-1376 when 7 French Popes moved the Papal Enclave from the Vatican to France.
xV6gB TIL it is possible to coat droplets of water with silica, resulting in a dry powder known as "dry water"
pP9Q TIL to crack down on alcohol related violence, organizers restricted the amount of alcohol campers could take to Australia’s biggest car race, the Bathurst 1000. To 24 cans. Per person. Per day.