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TIL that before the 19th century, the Versailles was often extremely dirty. Women pulled up their skirts up to pee where they stood, while some men urinated in the middle of the royal chapel. Marie-Antoinette was once hit by human waste being thrown out the window as she walked through a courtyard.

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e0OxD TIL that United Airlines is the only airline that operates routes on many islands in Micronesia and the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean
J1DDB TIL that in 1916 Jeannette Rankin became the first woman in Congress, representing Montana. She ran and won again in 1940, and no woman has represented Montana at a Federal level since.
OLVL TIL A 17 year old high school football player who was black had a relationship with a 32 year old white crackhead prostitute in rural North Carolina. He was found hanging from a swing set, in a trailer park, in shoes he did not own, that did not fit, and it was ruled a suicide.
8ey7K TIL that during WWII the average recruit was 5’8” tall and weighed 144 pounds. During basic training, they gained 5-20 pounds and added an inch to their 33 1/4” chest.
6bBw TIL When France set off its first nuclear weapon, it made it more powerful than all the other nation’s first weapons combined. Then set it off in a remote part of Algeria. While they were at war with each other.