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TIL “Macho Man” Randy Savage played for the STL Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds before becoming a wrestler

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Oo6Y6 TIL of the 'en viager occupe' system in France, in which the buyer pays a homeowner a fixed monthly sum until the homeowner passes away, then the buyer gets ownership of the house.
LaOp TIL a nurse named Sandra Clarke had to leave a terminally ill patient alone when asked to stay. When she returned, the patient had passed away from multi-organ-failure. No One Dies Alone was then created, a charity where volunteers sit with terminally ill lonely patients. it’s now international.
Z9QB TIL that Icelanders have no family names. Instead, their surname is just their father’s name plus “son” or “dottir”
Wka1L TIL Liechtenstein was the last country in Europe to grant women the right to vote. The first national election in which women could vote occurred in 1986.
yQgo8 TIL Coco Chanel, famous fashion designer, was a Nazi sympathizer and agent