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TIL Poland’s first PM was a concert pianist

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8aD0L TIL The length of the Great Wall of China is more than half the circumference of the Earth
XrXj TIL that human meat tastes like veal and a person would not be able to distinguish it from veal.
yBBv TIL Robert Todd Lincoln was present, or near, 3 different presidential assassinations which prompted him to refuse a later presidential invitation with the comment “No, I’m not going, and they’d better not ask me, because there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present.”
OJOY TIL American soldiers would wrap suicide attackers from the Moro Muslim group in the Philippines in pig skin to make them unfit to go to heaven and deter potential future attacks by them
7gwM TIL that the Los Angeles Police Department changed the rank of “inspector” to be called “commander” because “senior officers voiced a preference for the more military-sounding rank”