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p80Le TIL: The Meisterschale has enough space to fit the next Bundesliga champions until 2026
jJYR TIL Former French President, Félix Faure, died at age 59 from a massive stroke while making love to his mistress. French newspapers and political leaders spread rumors of his death including that his “stiff hands were entangled in her hair” and that he had to be surgically separated from her.
yQn1M TIL: The record for most Oscars won by an individual belongs to Walt Disney with 22 wins.
lon7A TIL Fedex nearly went bankrupt in its early days - its founder took the company's last $5000 to Las Vegas and won enough money through blackjack to cover their $24000 fuel bill.
jNrAR TIL that early in his imprisonment, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, befriended Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and Ramzi Yousef, a perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The trio discussed religion and politics and formed a friendship that lasted until McVeigh's execution in 2001.