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TIL that the French Foreign Legion allows you to enlist with a fake identity, allowing members to effectively start their lives over.

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wLJ7J TIL a Spoonerism is when parts of two words are switched in a phrase, such as "The Lord is a shoving leopard", instead of "a loving shepherd."
YpowA TIL that writing by hand increases children's brain activity and makes them smarter
Oopw7 Today I learned that Jeffrey Jones (the Principal in Ferris Bueller) is an actor/convicted sex offender
JYOm1 TIL: Mel Carnahan won the 2000 U.S. Senate election in Missouri against the incumbent, John Ashcroft, despite passing away in a plane crash three weeks before election day.
r1aM TIL That the Kowloon walled city in Hong Kong was home to 33,000 residents all of which lived in hundreds of interconnected high rise buildings crammed into a 210m x 120m space. The construction was so dense that sunlight didn’t filter down to the lower levels. Photos in link.