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TIL: "Weird Al" Yankovic has a Billboard top-10 song. "White and Nerdy" peaked at number 9 on the Hot 100

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EgMLx TIL that the British Empire was the largest in human history, about six times larger than the Roman Empire, occupying close to a quarter of the world
neREr TIL of General Butt Naked, commander of the Butt Naked Brigade in Liberia, who has admitted to cannibalism and human sacrifice and went into battle wearing only sneakers. He is now a Christian minister
Beox TIL serial killer James French’s last words on the electric chair before being executed were: “How’s this for your headline? ‘French Fries’”
kJjNB Today I learned that India discontinued its jury-based system largely because of the K. M. Nanavati case.
Y7Jjd TIL Bill the Cat is Garfield's illegitimate son