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TIL that the Nepalese royal family was nearly wiped out in 2001, when Crown Prince Dipendra opened fire during a gathering at the palace

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8ev0b TIL Godfrey the Hunchback, (1076) was assassinated by a spy below his personal latrine with a spear… in the posterior
pbQ8 TIL in 1846, John Torrington perished during an expedition to find the Northwest Passage. When his corpse was exhumed 138 years later, it was almost perfectly preserved – eyes wide open, clothing intact, and limbs so flexible that moving him felt like moving someone unconscious rather than dead.
96KD TIL I learned that River Phoenix (and the Phoenix family as a whole) were part of a pedophile sex cult known as “The Family”.
yeoM TIL there was a man named Johnny Kennedy whose skin fell off at the slightest touch. Despite being in constant agony, he kept up a positive outlook. In his documentary, he made a joke that “Any bumps or excessive friction, such as constant wanking, doesn't go well with the condition”.
yJpv TIL Lenin’s dead body is bathed and dressed in new clothes every year. His tomb is in center of Moscow open to public, despite his death wish to be buried next to his wife