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TIL The MEE6 bot from Discord is a Rick and Morty reference. I never watched Rick and Morty, so I had no idea.

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XEZyD TIL of Sogen Kato, believed to be the oldest man in Tokyo at the age of 111 until it was discovered he died at 79 and the family lied about it to keep receiving his pension
dxXZ TIL that the phrase “You’ve got guts” originated from the American Civil War era during which over 211,000 soldiers were diagnosed with chronic diarrhea. Because of its frequency, the expression arose that a man “had to have good guts to be a good soldier.”
7GlL TIL in 2011 two men not only climbed Everest but paraglided from its peak, then hiked and kayaked through some of the world’s most unforgiving territory to reach India’s Bay of Bengal in a trial that has been dubbed “The Ultimate Descent.”
1DJ4 TIL that after an unsuccessful attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln’s body in 1874, workers were hired to place the coffin further underground. They could not find a suitable area at first, so they simply set the coffin on the ground and covered it with lumber, disguising it as a woodpile for two years.
750P TIL that when the Nazis forced Jews to wear yellow stars during WW2, it backfired. Doing so increased sympathy for the Jews, who were (contrary to Nazi propaganda) obviously not responsible for how badly the war was going. People began tipping hats to Jews as a symbol of anti-German resistance.