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TIL there is a French superstition that magpies are the reincarnated souls of evil nuns.

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rvge TIL Denton Cooley answered in the affirmative when a lawyer during a trial asked him if he considered himself to be the best heart surgeon in the world. “Don’t you think that’s being rather immodest?” the lawyer replied. "Perhaps,” Cooley responded. “But remember I’m under oath.”
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nWgGY TIL that in 1967, Salvador Dalí designed 500 ashtrays for Air India—in exchange for a live baby elephant.
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rRbko TIL In 1970 Eckhard and Christel Wehage frustrated with life in East Germany attempted to hijack a plane shortly after take-off to take them to West Germany. When they realised their escape plan had failed, they returned to their seats and shot themselves.