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TIL that giraffes sleep using their own butts as pillows
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TIL Conan O’Brien was his high school’s valedictorian and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. He majored in American History and was the president of the Harvard Lampoon.
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TIL that Singapore Airlines flight 21 which had the longest non-stop flight (18 hours), from Singapore to New Jersey, had special lockers on the plane to store corpses if people died en route since the flight path over the Pacific Ocean and North Pole meant the plane couldn’t land if someone died.
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TIL Maud Gonne, a fascinating 19th century revolutionary, was so grieved by the death of her infant son that she and the boy’s father had sex next to his coffin in the hope that his soul would transmigrate in metempsychosis
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TIL The United States government planned on blowing up airliners and blaming it on Cuba in order to create public support for a war against that nation
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TIL of slotting fee: a fee charged to produce companies or manufacturers by supermarket distributors (retailers) in order to have their product placed on their shelves