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TIL The official "Fastest Escape from a Regulated Posey Straitjacket" is 2.84 seconds, set by Danilo Audiello at the Studio Fleming Medicina Generale, Foggia, Italy, on 11 August 2014.

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d8D68 TIL of Jean Meslier, who was a French Catholic priest, who was discovered, upon his death, to have written a book-length philosophical essay promoting atheism. From Meslier, Diderot is said to have derived the quote "And with the guts of the last priest let's strangle the neck of the last king".
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