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TIL Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, was just 19 when he inherited the title of president-for-life from his father. He was forced from power but was allowed to live in the obscurity of a Port-au-Prince suburb, freely roaming the capital as he pleased until his death

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5bRR TIL that a programmer developed an operating system called TempleOS since 2003. Hospitalized for mental health problems, he believes that TempleOS is literally the Third Temple as biblically prophesied. Per God’s “instructions,” the OS uses a 640x480, 16 color display, and uses the language HolyC.
xe7o TIL last year we found 1,458 new species of bacteria living in the bellybutton, everyone’s bellybutton ecology is unique like a fingerprint, and one volunteer’s belly button harbored bacteria that had previously been found only in soil from Japan, where he had never been.
yQ7NJ TIL that the USSR provided weapons to the Official IRA, 5,000 of which could still be hidden in bunkers
1aBj8 TIL that Charlie Chaplin made the Hitler mocking film, "The Great Dictator", in 1940 using his own money because none of the Hollywood studios were comfortable irking the Germans as they had financial relations with them. The film is said to be one of the greatest works of Charlie Chaplin.
4exo TIL that in 1856, the color mauve was invented accidentally in a young chemist’s attempt to cure malaria. Instead of curing the disease, the ink was picked up by the Queen and took Victorian fashion by storm.