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TIL Charles Darwin referred to blushing as “the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.”

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gMvA4 TIL Sorrell Booke ("Boss Hogg") had degrees from Yale and Columbia, spoke 5 languages, was an intelligence officer in the Korean War, once conducted the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, wore a fat suit to play Boss Hogg
yQ8Kv TIL North Korea's late leader Kim Jong-Il reportedly spent $700,000 a year on Hennessy cognac
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