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Today I Learned: One of the first covert listening devices was given to a sitting US President as a gift.

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jNaJE TIL that sexsomnia is a sleep disorder where people experience sleep-related sexual behavior. These behaviors range from masturbation to sexual intercourse. People with this disorder engage in sexual behaviors while asleep, often with other people.
MeDZ0 TIL that in 1965-1966 a morbidly obese man named Angus Barbieri went 382 days without eating, losing 276lbs (125kg).
1WE8 TIL during the Siege of Leningrad in WWII, 9 Soviet scientists died of starvation while protecting the world’s largest seed bank, refusing to eat what they saw as their country’s future.
kOg6W TIL France had the most extensive network of optical telegraphs, and the inertia from this made it one of the slowest countries to adopt electrical telegraphs.
dDmrZ TIL when Mongols defeated the Poles at the battle of Legnica, they beheaded king Henry II and paraded his head. His wife recognized his mutilated body by his eleventh toe.