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TIL Alfa Romeo's logo contains a snake eating a human
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TIL that when Walter Tschinkel poured molten aluminium into ant nests, he got this.
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TIL Bernard Moitessier was about to set a record for the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the globe when he decided instead to continue on to Tahiti "because he was happy at sea."
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TIL Benjamin Franklin intentionally faked the death of rival publisher, Titan Leeds. (Franklin maintained that the still-alive Leeds was an impostor.)
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TIL about Tatunca Nara, who claimed to be from Akakor, an ancient underground city, located somewhere between Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. He worked as a jungle guide, but several of his clients disappeared, and it was discovered he was actually born in Germany.
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TIL that former First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson is a direct descendant of Pocahontas.