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TIL that Senator Strom Thurmond holds the record for the longest Filibuster by a lone senator. He stayed on the Senate floor speaking for 24 hours and 18 minutes nonstop in opposition of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

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a84gM TIL Oppenheimer attempted to poison his tutor with cyanide
xve7 TIL that 20,000 bibles were once donated from the US to Romania. The Romanian government pulped most of them and turned them into toilet paper.
e0PRL TIL Mona Lisa died from The Plague
E16KX TIL That the song "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" by R.E.M. is a reference to an incident in which Dan Rather was assaulted by a man who repeatedly shouted "Kenneth, what is the frequency?"
EgMmp TIL that in 1999, PETA, as part of its McCruelty campaign, attempted to distribute bloody Unhappy Meals to young audiences. They also released a comic book in which Ronald McDonald, Grimace, and the Hamburglar unite to kill Birdie's parents, feed them to her unknowingly, then eat her as well.