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TIL that the city of Detroit raised $50,000 in less than 10 days in order to fund the building of a Robocop statue

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4RMJ TIL that a widow of a WWII veteran never learned the exact fate of her husband. After 68 years she found that he was not only buried in France. But that a town in France has been honoring him for the last 68 years.
m5dR TIL - Napoleon’s last direct descendant died in 1945 after he tripped over the leash of the dog he was walking and broke his neck - Jerome-Napoleon Charles Bonaparte
OomvR TIL that the daily routine of Hunter S. Thompson began at 3 pm with cigarettes, cocaine and scotch, and he would begin writing at midnight whilst tripping on LSD, snorting excessive amounts of cocaine, smoking marijuana, drinking constantly and watching porn.
MeYa7 TIL that after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Ukraine claimed that it's military-trained dolphins chose to patriotically go on strike rather than cooperate with the Russian invaders.
xQRk TIL that Ford makes a “Drugged Driving Suit” that simulates the effects of driving under the influence of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, LSD, and ecstasy.