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TIL The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez once spoke for 8 hours straight on his own Talk Show

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Ld99 TIL In 1939, a five year old girl successfully gave birth and is still alive today
N7QDQ TIL that Boston Corbett - the man who killed John Wilkes Booth (the man who killed Abraham Lincoln) - most likely suffered from psychosis due to inhaling mercury fumes in his job as a hatter, and once castrated himself with a pair of scissors
mj4R TIL in 1967, a magazine published a fake story about extracting hallucinogenic chemicals from bananas to raise moral questions about banning drugs. People didn’t realize it was a hoax and began smoking banana peels to try to get high.
dlyB TIL Harry Truman was once a member of the KKK
7doX TIL in the Japanese version of Lotus 123 the audible error “beep” was removed because it would be very shameful for the computer to tell everybody that you made a mistake.