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TIL that a president of France actually died in office while being fellated.

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ONe7 TIL the 1978 “UFO abduction” of Frederick Valentich has been solved: out searching for UFOs, the inexperienced pilot saw “4 points of light of an elongated UFO”. Recent astronomical simulations show a perfect diamond formed by Mercury, Venus, Mars and nearby star Antares.
QJ4AX TIL about Farbs, a derogatory name for less-than-authentic Civil War reenactors who half-ass their look and cosplay. Farbs use sunblock and bugspray, take their iPhones into battle, and tend to be overweight (historically inaccurate for the 1860s).
RMn9 TIL Greyhounds have a 270-degree range of vision. They can see objects behind them and over ½ mile in front of them.
1aPWX TIL brainfuck is an esoteric programming language whose compiler uses only 240 bytes of memory making it around 11,000 times smaller than the C++ compiler.
78LjX TIL that in Texas it is legal to shoot and kill the legendary giant ape Bigfoot.