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TIL There’s an American in Colorado that is convinced that he’s the rightful heir to the British Monarchy

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W7gO8 TIL that Luxembourg is nearly a third more populous during the day than at night, as over 200k people living in Belgium, France and Germany commute daily to Luxembourg for work. In other words, Luxembourg draws roughly 40% of its current workforce from the border areas in Germany, France and Belgium
Wb49 TIL when Benjamin Franklin died he left the city of Boston $4000 in a trust to earn interest for 200 years. By 1990 the trust was worth over $5 million and was used to help establish a trade school that became the Franklin Institute of Boston.
oReMo TIL: Aimo Koivunen was the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on meth during combat. During WW2, feeling tied he took his squad's entire supply of Army issued Pervitin (meth). He then entered a state of delirium, hit a land mine, and subsisted on pine buds and one bird for a week.
PX7Z TIL the oldest person ever lived to 122 years old and smoked cigarettes until age 117.
WeWo TIL Police Squad was cancelled because, according to the network’s entertainment president, “the viewer had to watch it in order to appreciate it”