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TIL that Sunandha Kumariratana, queen of Thailand, drowned as her subjects looked on, because they were forbidden to touch her.

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eRME TIL that in the Mandingo fight scene in Django Unchained, when the man asks Django how his name is spelled, Django says “The D is silent.” The man replies “I know.” This is because the man is Franco Nero, the man who played Django in the original movie “Django,” in a cameo role.
ROP7 TIL that President Lyndon B. Johnson, his father, and his grandfather all died of heart failure at the age of 64.
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