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TIL of Félix Faure, a French President who died while receiving a blowjob. A ship named after him also went down.

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ZpLO4 TIL Styrofoam™ cups and packaging don't exist. They are made from a different type of styrene foam
4kg0o TIL US vehicle safety ratings (NCAP) don't factor in the survival of anyone else involved in the crash.
M7ZJm TIL Edvard Grieg’s “Morning Mood” wasn’t written to paint a Norwegian sunrise. The music actually accompanies a scene in Ibsen’s Peer Gynt where Peer wakes up stranded in the Moroccan desert (surrounded by acacias and palm trees) — not a Scandinavian fjord.
9wAbM TIL: the majority of sold/produced oysters have an extra set of chromosomes making them sterile.
R56j TIL that someone had a baby three months premature– the baby was declared stillborn. . The mother, eager to at least see the baby 12 hours after the operation– found the baby alive. . nailed in a coffin, almost frozen inside the morgue.