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TIL that Rodney Dangerfield wrote a romance novel called La Contessa, that features his own face on the cover, and that he narrates himself.

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gM9j4 TIL that women of the French royalty were required to give birth in public. Sometimes those births had scores of witnesses
R5jgQ TIL New Guinea (island) is over three times larger than Great Britain (both as an island and as a country)
ANYK4 TIL The United States and the Cherokee Nation signed the Treaty of New Echota in 1835 which promised the Cherokee people a delegate to the House of Representatives
DQ9Dr TIL Horseshoe crab blood is a valuable medical resource used to test drugs, and medical devices for bacterial contamination.
GonQ TIL that there exists a car that can go 280 mpg. It is made by Volkswagen and is currently in production.