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TIL The great grandson of China's first President didn't learn about him until he was 17 when he had to do a term paper and found over 1,600 books on Sun Yat-Sen, "The Father of Modern China". His grandparents and parents never told him about politics so he could grow up as a normal child

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LkZ7P TIL of Diego, a giant tortoise who helped "un-endanger" his species by having tons of sex. He & E5 (another male) brought the population from 16 to 2,000, and now the species is considered self-sufficient. Diego, after living in captivity for 90 years, is now retired at home in the Galápagos
9YMyX TIL that the US had a lesbian First Lady in 1885-1886. She was Rose Cleveland--Grover Cleveland's youngest sister and Acting US First Lady before Grover married in 1886. She was also a lesbian & had a relationship with a wealthy widow, Evangeline Marrs Simpson, with explicitly erotic correspondence.
ADbo7 TIL an English man, Darren Hickey, died after eating a scolding hot fishcake at a wedding - He suffered injuries to his throat similar to those who die of smoke inhalation in house fires.
PYe8V TIL Harold and Kumar were written to go to Krispy Kreme, but after the company declined to be featured in the film, White Castle was selected instead. Happy about the free advertising, White Castle become the first fast food chain to have an R-Rated comedy advertised on fast food containers
v100K TIL that there was a proposed state called West Kansas that would have consisted of nine southwestern Kansan counties.