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TIL that captured U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was the last prisoner at the infamous KGB prison Lubyanka. Powers was tried and convicted by the Soviet authorities and was later traded for captured Soviet spy Col. Vilyam Fisher (a.k.a. Rudolf Abel).
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TIL: The last Ottoman Empire Prince lived in a rent-controlled apartment in New York.
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TIL, in 2000, the April issue of the Romanian edition of Playboy magazine published an article titled 'How to Beat Your Wife Without Leaving Marks on Her Body' as an April Fool's joke. It backfired, and women's organizations in Romania spoke up in protest.