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TIL Benjamin Franklin attempted to predict the death of his competitor, Titan Leeds. When Leeds was still alive he posted an obituary anyways. When Leeds challenged it, Franklin insisted he was an imposter. When Leeds died in 1738 Franklin publicly commended the impostors for ending their charade

GAev1 TIL Mike Tyson used a fake penis and his own infants urine to pass drug tests
AOkB TIL Qatar Airways allows only one falcon per person as carry-on. It used to be two.
OG0D4 Today I learned that a man made hole is deeper than the mariana trench.
EwYP TIL Wham! donated all the royalties from “Last Christmas"—released December 1984—to Ethiopia famine aid.
BgwOL TIL that the term 'meme' was coined by Richard Dawkins in 1976