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TIL the first Democratic Governor of Wyoming wore shoes made of human flesh to his inauguration in 1893.

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E1rVo TIL that New York City has a genetically diverse rat population. 'Uptown' rats are different from 'Downtown' rats, and every neighborhood has their own distinct rats.
M7GDa TIL Annette Obrestad claims to have won a $4 180 person poker multi table tournament playing blind (only looking at her cards once) She went on to become the youngest person to win a World Series of Poker bracelet and held the record for the largest payout to a female player
yQwJv TIL the trailer for the longest movie ever made is 72 minutes long.
9wQWX TIL of Finnish man Lauri Allan Törni (born 1919) who fought in WW2 as both a Finnish and German soldier, and in the Vietnam War as a US Special Forces soldier. He was killed in a helicopter crash in 1965.
m1ro TIL that in 2009 a California police officer meant to use her taser on an unruly man in the back seat of her cruiser, but accidentally drew her gun. She shot the guy in the chest and killed him.