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TIL of Bo Gritz, a former U.S. army green beret who ran for President in the 90s, helped resolve the Ruby Ridge incident and was partially the inspiration for Hannibal from the A-Team

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QgXX TIL for severe crimes such as mutiny, the Royal navy used to punish men with “flogging round the fleet”. The criminal would be ferried from ship to ship, and whipped by the crew of every ship at port
wLPa6 TIL that Richard Nixon once got drunk and ordered a nuclear strike on North Korea before sobering and cancelling it
Lk1Ld TIL Pornhub displayed a message that said it automatically shared the video you were watching on social media for April Fools
x6Po7 TIL of a condition called Chimerism (from the Greek mythology monster - Chimera) in which a person can have two types of DNA.
LQL0m TIL that in Tiger Woods 99 for the PlayStation 1, in the first 100,000 copies of the game had an Easter egg that a developer snuck in when put into a computer, it contained a DAT. file that would play the first ever South Park short made. These copies were later recalled by EA