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TIL of French President Paul Deschanel, who fell out of the window of his sleeping compartment. He was discovered wandering about in the dark, in his pyjamas, claiming to be the President of France, in 1920.

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e49k TIL when Einstein died in 1955, the physician who conducted his autopsy at Princeton stole his brain and took it home to perform “research”, for which he was ultimately fired after refusing to return the brain. Decades later, he drove to California to return the brain to Einstein’s granddaughter.
BMOD TIL in their 1983 film “Monty Python’s the Meaning of Life,” the Pythons defined the meaning of life as “Try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try to live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”
l71d7 TIL the Miami Heat’s “Vice” basketball jerseys surpassed the sales of every other NBA team’s jerseys combined
jN8xQ TIL that Anthropodermic Bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin. Klaatu Barada Nikto.
NkpJ TIL that Zappos has a 365-day return policy, but if you make a purchase on 2/29 of a leap year then you have until the next leap year (4 years) to return the product.