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TIL, that Ronald Reagan's Chief of Staff was Donald Regan

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XOk8 TIL that Mr. Rogers weighed himself in every day at 143 pounds for the last 30 years of his life. He found beauty in the number because there is 1 letter in the word “I,” 4 letters in the word “love,” and 3 letters in the word “you.” “I love you.”
xVeo5 TIL that The Sex Pistols were asked by their manager to write a song called "Submission", hoping they would write about bondage. Instead they wrote a song about a submarine mission.
vpZL TIL “Berserkers” were Norse warriors who fought in a nearly uncontrollable, trance-like fury. It has been suggested that the warriors consumed hallucinogens before battles. Some were said to wear the pelt of a wolf (or bear) when they entered battle.
ADoDw TIL of Karl P. Schmidt, a herpetologist who documented his own death after he was bitten by a juvenile boomslang snake. He made detailed notes on the symptoms he experienced, almost right up to the end. He died 24 hours after the bite, bleeding in his lungs, kidneys, heart, and brain.
BrdPL TIL that most places in the American South named Lincoln are named for the Revolutionary War general Benjamin Lincoln rather than Abraham Lincoln.