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TIL that King Augustus II of Poland was a voracious womanizer. He had only one legitimate son—the future King Augustus III—but some contemporary sources claim that he had as many as 365 or 382 children.

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Oo1Rg TIL - CIA revealed a "heart attack" gun in 1975. A battery operated gun which fired a dart of frozen water & shellfish toxin. Once inside the body it would melt leaving only a small red mark on the victim where it entered. The official cause of death would always be a heart attack.
5YY1k TIL that the local transport in Locarno, Switzerland, is called «Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi», making for an interesting acronym.
XEDer TIL President Garfield’s cause of death wasn’t so much the bullet wound from his assassination attempt as much as it was the treatment he received afterward. His doctors’ clumsy, unsanitary attempts to heal him resulted in a severe, painful infection that killed him three months later.
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