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TIL of William Frederick Windham, who was legally defined as eccentric after one of the long court cases for lunacy because he married a courtesan.

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0wEN TIL that when John F. Kennedy asked Dutch foreign minister Joseph Luns what hobby he had, he replied “I fok horses”. The Dutch verb fokken meaning to breed.
X7XR TIL that you shouldn’t wish a Jewish person a happy Yom Kippur because it is a day for atonement, not joy. You should wish them “an easy fast” instead.
RW76 TIL The Unabomber was so smart that for his PHD thesis he solved a math problem that even his own math professor couldn’t solve. Another math professor said of his thesis “I’d guess that only 10 or 12 people in the country could understand or appreciate it.”
PYo0n TIL that The Pyramid of Menkaure, one of the three Great Pyramids on the Giza Plateau, was attempted to be Destroyed by the Son of Saladin, after 8 months they were Only able to create a Gash in the Pyramid.
w7Ao TIL The episode “Heart of Ice,” from Batman: The Animated Series, won an Emmy award for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program. It was the series’ second Emmy award (out of the 4 that it won).