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TIL the current royal family of Sweden was founded by one of Napoleon’s Marshals of France.

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gGGW TIL Lee Fierro, who played the mother of Alex Kintner in Jaws, walked into a restaurant that sold an “Alex Kintner sandwich.” The owner ran out to meet her, and he was none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who played her son. They had not seen each other since the original movie shoot.
o10W TIL of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who was the president of a Tibetan Buddhist region of West Russia about the size of Austria, and is also the president of the World Chess Organization. He can also speak 6 languages.
wLZko TIL the espresso martini was invented when a young woman asked a famous London bartender for a drink that would "Wake me up, then fuck me up."
eMG4 TIL: There’s a law in Canada called the “Apology Act” which prevents parties from using an apology as an admittance of guilt in court.
9w5V6 TIL the alligator from Happy Gilmore is alive and thriving in Colorado