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TIL JFK commanded a 19 Year old intern to perform oral sex on a white house aide.

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epw0J TIL in 1906, the raja of Bali and his entourage of priests, guards, women and children marched in trance towards the Dutch invaders. They took bullets from the Dutch army, and stabbed each other with ritual daggers until every single one died. This was a ritualistic mass suicide as final resistance
8aM7P TIL that Captain Oates an Antarctic explorer died during the Terra Nova Expedition. Oates struggling with the journey back walked from his tent into a blizzard. He committed suicide in an act of self-sacrifice when his ill health was compromising his three companions' chances of survival.
RNwj TIL that the Lyme disease bacteria is actually transmitted from mice to ticks. And that humans have greatly contributed to outbreaks by causing forest fragmentation and killing predators.
wLDgW TIL only 8% of the world's currency exists in physical form. The rest exists only on a computer
6L98 TIL: In the world of botany there’s no such thing as vegetables. It’s a culinary term so there are no plants that are actually classified as vegetables.