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TIL that Victor Hugo slept with so many prostitutes that on the day he died, all the brothels in Paris closed to mourn.

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4gm5 TIL that Scrooge McDuck “died” in 1967
5R8P TIL During WW2, the British Secret Intelligence Service distributed the board game Monopoly to prisoners of war. Hidden inside were maps, compasses, real money, and other objects useful for escaping.
0d8aN TIL In 1942, a 60-foot-long (18 m) 1000-ton ship was built out of ice and sawdust in hopes to be an aircraft carrier
0awv TIL the song Fly Me to the Moon was the first music ever heard on the Moon, when Buzz Aldrin played it on a cassette tape.
M7B4A TIL a Googolpex is a number so large that if you were able to write it out in books the total mass of the books required would be vastly greater than the mass of the observable universe