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TIL After pleas to remove a radio tower went unheard the French decided to simply blow it up. When the Soviet General angrily asked how could they do this, the French General Responded “With dynamite, my dear colleague.”

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X0Alj TIL American silent film actress Martha Mansfield died at age 24 when a carelessly tossed match lit her costume on fire. It was never determined who threw the match.
VXBB TIL the use of the letter “Z” to indicate snoring or sleep was first documented in an August 2, 1903 comic strip called Katzenjammer Kids
gM0MA TIL the word “cocksucker” is uttered 279 times in the series Deadwood.
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GAwON TIL about Robert Cocking, an amateur scientist whose 1837 death was caused by a poorly constructed parachute of his own design.