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TIL the San Marino football team has only won one match in its entire history, and has scored 24 goals in 164 matches.

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DrJV TIL after a bloody war with Ethiopia in 2001, half of Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki’s Cabinet signed a letter asking him to reconsider his authoritarian style of government. He promptly charged his own ministers with treason and threw them in jail, where they remain today.
Mep07 TIL of Stephen Milligan, a British politician who was found dead naked except for a pair of stockings and suspenders, with an electrical flex tied around his neck, a black garbage bag over his head and an orange in his mouth. It's believed he died accidentally as a result of autoerotic asphyxiation.
X0YgP TIL Napoleon was once attacked by a horde of bunnies during a hunting event: the tame rabbits were released all at once and charged him en masse, mistaking it for feeding time
mx6oE TIL Colonel Sanders bleached his facial hair to match his white hair
P1KlV TIL that white, black, and green, and red peppercorns are all derived from the same plant, Piper Nigrum. Pink peppercorns, however, do not.