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TIL a mob of angry Dutch killed and ate their prime minister

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9KvB TIL synovial fluid found in human joints is one of the most slipperiest substances known to man (more slippery than Teflon)
XEvWj TIL Elvis Presley probably died of constipation. He died in 1977, while straining on the stool. The autopsy showed Presley had an enlarged "megacolon," horribly impacted with clay like material from a barium X-ray procedure that the King went through four months earlier.
kJPwd TIL that in the 1970's an inventor called Harold Bates converted a car to run on chicken manure
Bg0dx TIL in 1969, a drunk Richard Nixon ordered a nuclear strike on North Korea for shooting down a spy plane. Henry Kissinger, his National Security Advisor, got on the phone to the Joint Chiefs and was able to convince them to stand down on that order until Nixon woke up sober the next morning
4XvVN TIL "Night Witches" were women that flew under the cover of darkness in bare-boned plywood biplanes to bomb the Nazis during WW2.