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TIL that The Sopranos were nominated for 112 Emmys, despite only airing 86 episodes.

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8xb8 TIL Don Karkos lost his eyesight due to shrapnel from a grenade in WWII. 64 years later he was kicked in the head by a horse in the exact spot the shrapnel had been. Which cause him to regain his eyesight.
4XvVN TIL "Night Witches" were women that flew under the cover of darkness in bare-boned plywood biplanes to bomb the Nazis during WW2.
yV7nV TIL Chris Rock did a comedy sketch "revealing" OJ Simpson's hypothetical confession a decade before the novel "If I Did It".
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16gW4 TIL that approximately 65000 tonnes of chemical warfare agents (CWA), for example, mustard gas, Clark I, Clark II, Lewisite and Adamsite, were dumped in Baltic Sea and Skagerrak from 1947 to 1948.