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TIL Chef Paul Prudhomme was struck by a .22-calibre bullet while cooking at a golf tournament, he thought it was a bee sting and kept on cooking.

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E14B7 TIL: Rat King is a phenomenon in which rats or squirrels get their tails entangled because of sap, grass, and how they move over one another. The largest Rat King was composed by 32 entangled rats.
awQ7o TIL, after the French Revolution, the new French Government set a new means of keeping time. Days were made of 10 hours, each hour made of 100 minutes, each minute made of 100 seconds. It proved too difficult to keep for more than a decade.
oBjkW TIL the last person who spoke exclusively Irish, Seán Ó hEinirí, died only 22 years ago in 1998
R5Z1Q TIL prohibition was law in Kansas until after World War II
PYKKL TIL In 1943, Disney released an 8-minute long animated film titled "Der Fuehrer's Face", which featured Donald Duck's nightmare of working in Nazi Germany. It is one of the most notable examples of American propaganda during World War II.