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TIL Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was once accidentally set on fire while playing in a cricket match.

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XEr9R TIL Muammar Qaddafi was obsessed with Secretary of State, Condolezza Rice. During one visit he showed her a video with photos of her with various people, set to a song composed just for her called ‘Black Flower in the White House.’ When his house was raided a scrapbook of her pictures was found.
J1rDk TIL Confederate General Joseph Shelby refused to surrender after the Civil War and crossed into Mexico with his men
m1dAR TIL During the 1902 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker was depicted as a parrot so he passed the Salus-Grady libel law which banned representing politicians as animals. Cartoonist all over the nation responded by drawing politicians as vegetables and inanimate objects.
p8Vpe TIL that at the center of a pearl is a parasite. Making pearls is an immune response.
bra7 TIL Congress was banned from editing Wikipedia