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TIL The wife of Communist Romania’s leader (Elena Ceaușescu) was barely literate but was able to obtain a PhD in Chemistry from plagiarism.

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Awrn TIL the Walton Family has donated only 2% of their income to charities. Compare this to Bill Gates at 48% and Warren Buffet at 78%.
VBKKm TIL of Elmer McCurdy; a funhouse prop that turned out to be a real corpse
9YwDp TIL all the koopalings are named after celebrities, mostly musicians. Except Larry, who just looked like a Larry.
GpE5 TIL when Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, commander of the all-black 54th Regiment during the American Civil War, died at Fort Wagner, he was stripped and buried with his men as an insult. His father, however, proclaimed that he was proud to know that he rests with his brave and devoted soldiers.
Y70pB TIL about Chrysomallon squamiferum, commonly known as the sea pangolin or volcano snail. The scales on its feet are made of iron sulfide. It does not require consumption of food as it lives on the energy the bacteria in its gland produces.