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TIL of General Butt Naked who led his troops naked into war, plucked innocent children’s hearts out to eat, chopped the heads of hundreds of people to use as soccer balls and ritually sacrificed teenagers. After the war,he claimed to have found religion and repented. He is now a preacher in Liberia.

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MQV8 TIL an operation called Care For Sandy has volunteers using PhotoShop (etc.) to clean up photos (almost) destroyed by the storm.
X0GgR TIL the first woman to be on the ballot in all 50 states was in 1988: a black woman named Lenora Fulani. She is 74 years old now.
yV5Pv TIL After Losing the Civil War, the Vice-President of the Confederacy, Alexander H. Stephens, was elected to the U.S. Senate, House, and was Governor of Georgia until 1883
YN4A TIL that the Pyongyang Central Zoo has a parrot which can squawk “Long live the Great Leader, Comrade Kim Il-sung” in English.
m15Py TIL that famous children’s author Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalks Ends, The Giving Tree) wrote Johnny Cash’s famous song A Boy Named Sue.