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TIL Catherine the Great of Russia had a room in her palace filled with erotic furniture

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X0k18 TIL Father Alec Reid, a Catholic priest who secretly worked to end decades of bloodshed in Northern Ireland between 1960s-1998, unsuccessfully tried to stop two British soldiers (Protestant side) from being shot by the IRA, while carrying crucial secret letter outlining peace negotiations.
aNAo TIL There’s a village in N. Kazakhastan dubbed “Sleepy Hollow” because the residents will fall asleep for days at a time. They suffer from encephalopathy and it took 4 years to discover the cause was radon gas.
wL6E TIL F-8 Crusader pilot Clliff Judkins survived a 15,000 foot fall when his parachute failed to open.
YpVaZ TIL that many Icelanders refer to WW2 as "the blessed war" because the country has the war to thank for their independence.
7BZ7 TIL a US judge has ruled that a man who was declared dead after he had disappeared for 30 years cannot be declared officially alive, though he has returned home and is in good health.