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TIL of John C. Beale, a man who pretended he was a CIA secret agent, flew around the world on first-class flights, stayed in high-end hotels and cost the taxpayers almost $900,000.

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kJxO4 TIL that king Charles III is allowed to travel without a passport and drive without a license as the reigning monarch of 14 countries.
XBLE TIL White Chocolate isn’t actually chocolate, as it is not made with any cocoa beans. It is actually made of cocoa butter, the fat from cocoa beans.
wLmp6 TIL Genetic mutations among Tibetan individuals helps them to live and work in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, which features elevations as high as 14,800 feet. One of these variants was inherited from an extinct group of humans known as the Denisovans, a sister species to the Neanderthals.
d8LRr TIL Charles VIII, the King of France was killed after hitting his head on a doorframe
R7A18 TIL an abstract from a paper about butt reflexology (pressure points on the butt that can be used for therapeutic effects) that was written to show the dangers of having low standards in science, was accepted by the Jerusalem International Conference on Integrative Medicine.