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TIL About Otoya Yamaguchi: The Anonymous Smiling 17-Year-Old Who Assassinated Japan’s Socialist Leader On Live TV

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nDKb TIL that handwriting analysis strongly suggests that Czar Alexander I of Russia, who defeated Napoleon, faked his own death to become the monk Fyodor Kuzmich, who had a genteel manner, spoke several languages and claimed to have forgotten his past
PYZ7L TIL about the Tarpeian Rock in Rome. In ancient times Romans threw traitors and murderers off this rock, named after the mythological first traitor to be flung from it: the Vestal Virgin Tarpeia.
7rQdx TIL the photosynthesizing Green Sea Slug is considered part animal and part plant.
VMMMZ TIL there is a military soccer world cup and North Korea placed first in 2003
yQWOa TIL that in 2013 a French businessman died of a heart attack while having sex with a stranger while on a business trip. A French court subsequently ruled that this was an industrial accident and that his wife and family were entitled to compensation