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TIL of Julie D’Aubigny who was a 17th century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who fought and won at least ten life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest opera stage in the world and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and shag a nun.

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DYwP TIL that Truman, before becoming US President in 1945 advocated arming Germany if the Soviet Union was in a position to win
691gl TIL the neo-babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar II is described in the bible as displaying symptons consistent with boanthropy, a disorder in which a human believes themselves to be a bovine.
WLy4 TIL you can Street View around the Old City in Jerusalem
yYkl TIL that an ocean line stewardess who survived the sinking of three ships: Titanic, Britannic, and the Olympic, made sure to grab her toothbrush while going down with the Britannic because it was the first thing she missed having after going down on the Titanic.
9YG9G TIL that the river Thames in England is 47 million years older than the Amazon