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TIL the first unelected president of the united states was born with the surname King

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x6Ov1 TIL In the Sixth Dynasty, the Pharaoh elevated a physician named Iri to "Shepherd of the King’s Anus", a great honor.
8ax7V TIL that the inventor of Coca-Cola, John Stith Pemberton was a Civil War veteran who became addicted to morphine due to pain from a saber wound to the chest. Seeking alternatives to his morphine use, he developed the original formula for Coca-Cola with use of the coca plant for pain relief.
rN60w TIL that part of the profit of the English East India Company's first expedition to the Indian Ocean came from the seizure and loot of a Portuguese galleon
nJKY TIL There is a jail vigilante named T-Bone who beats up jail rapists
D1vDP TIL of Benny Podda, a bodybuilder who once hanged himself with a noose from the rafters, only to open his eyes after 5 minutes of hanging to flip off the audience