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TIL When Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau found out Nixon called him an “asshole”, he replied “I’ve been called worse things by better people.”

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BgxwL TIL about ‘Whipping Tom’, the pseudonym for two different sexual predators, who attacked and spanked dozens of women in Stuart London. They generated so much concern that many women began to arm themselves and male vigilantes crossdressed in an attempted to apprehend them.
5YMdB TIL that up until as recently as 2008, a descendant of Confucius held a cabinet-level position in the Taiwanese government, titled the "Sacrificial Official to Confucius". The current holder is a 79th generation descendant of the philosopher who died in 479 BC.
jN5YN TIL the crew on a WW2 Japanese cruiser annoyed the ship's officers by teaching a pet monkey to salute them
Yp6VB TIL Hudson's Bay Company is the oldest business in Canada. Founded in 1670
08PM TIL a couple in Japan on their morning walk stumbled upon a life-sized sex doll wrapped in plastic they mistook for a corpse. It was not until later that afternoon when police pathologists cut open the wrapping that they realised it was not a real body.