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TIL that when President George Washington died, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte ordered ten days of mourning in France.

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D99P TIL the most radioactive place on earth isn’t Chernobyl or Fukushima, but a lake in the southern Urals that was once home the the Soviet’s nuclear waste storage area. You could receive a lethal dose of radiation in 30 minutes just standing on the shore of the lake.
9xEM TIL that 10,000 years ago, everyone’s eyes were brown until someone living by the Black Sea developed a genetic mutation turning brown eyes blue
J1jOB TIL The Japanese art form of Kusôzu, which means “painting of the nine stages of a decaying corpse”, portrays the sequential decay of a cadaver, usually female, in graphic detail. The paintings are meant to encourage contemplation on the repulsive aspects of the body and discourage sexual desire.
epKYb TIL Canadian Geese poop every 12 minutes.
WkOyB TIL the first woman elected president of a country was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland, who won the 1980 presidential election as well as three others to also become the longest-serving non-hereditary female head of state in history (almost exactly 16 years in office)