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TIL Eighty percent of Soviet males born in 1923 died in WWII

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691YQ TIL Princess Diana's Great (×14) Grandfather was a nobleman born in 1455 named John Spencer. He was also the Great (x13) Grandfather of Winston Churchill.
OGQJL TIL that while the Royal Navy suspended flogging in 1879, they never actually abolished it.
XERgX TIL that Charles Dickens, who desperate for money, penned the classic holiday tale in six weeks only to sell out within a week.
4kLpb TIL of One Little Indian, a 1973 Western Comedy produced by Disney. Star James Garner said of the film "I've done some things I'm not proud of. This is one of them. The only bright spot was a ten year old Jodie Foster."
p8jK8 TIL The inventor of frontal lobotomy won a Nobel Prize.