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TIL Billionaire Aristotle Onassis (who married Jacqueline Kennedy after JFK's assassination) upholstered his yacht's bar stools with whale foreskins

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R5dA9 TIL the 'C E' mark (Conformité Européenne, which represents compliance with EU regulations and standards) and 'CE' (China Export, essentially meaningless) are confusingly similar.
BZBe TIL: All aircraft carriers in history (save two) have their bridges on the starboard side due to a near universal tendency of pilots to veer left in an emergency.
b6YnN TIL when US President Harding died unexpectedly in 1923, Vice President Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office at 2:47 AM, and promptly returned to bed.
OGk17 TIL of the "Mad Piper" Bill Millin, the only bagpiper to land on the beach in Normandy. While men fell around him, he played his pipes throughout the battle. A group of captured German snipers was asked why they hadn't shot him. They replied that they thought he'd gone insane and felt bad for him.
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