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TIL a drunk Russian man passed out drunk only to find himself waking up at a morgue. At his own ‘funeral’. He then proceeded to drink vodka with his friends who were supposed to be mourning him.

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AD5ka TIL that the largest Francophone metropolis in the world is not Paris, but actually Kinshasa (pop. 12.69 million), the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo
gMmd8 TIL In the 1970s the police discovered a couple who had kept their daughter imprisoned inside a locked room for 13 years. With no contact with the outside world, little stimulation, and very limited communication with her parents her brain wasn't capable of learning any language.
PYo4e TIL a firefighter with a phobia of fires sued his workplace after they moved him to an office position from his previous position on the fire suppression unit so he wouldn't be around fires. He wanted to stay on the fire suppression unit despite his fear.
gr8Yy TIL Canada did not have official residences for its political leaders until 1950. Laurier House in Ottawa was home to two Canadian Prime Ministers in the decades prior and served as PM Mackenzie King's unofficial office where he conducted much of the nation's business
OoM5e TIL that under ancient Jewish law, unanimous conviction was considered as too good to be correct. The absence of dissenting opinions among the judges was seen a proof that the suspect is very probably innocent