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TIL about Kim Noble, an artist with over 100 multiple personalities, over a dozen of which have highly distinctive artistic styles, such that art critics were astonished that such range of stylized renderings could come from only one person.

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rNLE0 TIL of the Quasi-War, an undeclared war between the U.S. and France from 1798 to 1800. Fought mainly in the Caribbean and off the U.S. East Coast, it set a precedent for Congress to authorize military action without a formal war declaration, influencing later conflicts like Vietnam and the Gulf War.
OonZR TIL: Gay male victims of the Holocaust, who wore the downward-facing pink triangle, were still considered to be criminals when they were freed from concentration camps. They were often sent back to prison to serve out their terms.
e0WQD TIL Julius Caesar was not born from a Caesarian Section. The term Caesarians are not named after Caesar but instead Caesar was named after Caesarians. In Latin caesus is the past participle of caedere meaning “to cut”.
6E408 TIL that immediately after the death of Queen Elizabeth II, her secretary will inform the Prime Minister via a secure phone line by saying "London Bridge is down", thus initiating Operation London Bridge, a detailed procedure that outlines the action for days and weeks after the sovereign's death.
grDYb TIL that the phrase "Lock and Load" came from John Wayne mixing up the actual command of "Load and Lock" in the movie "The Sands of Iwo Jima".