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TIL that the great-grandson of Benito Mussolini, Romano Mussolini, is a professional footballer, who's now playing for first-division Italian club Lazio

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R7Q71 TIL about the Alnwick Garden which is a deadly attraction which houses over 100 plant species of varying degrees of toxicity
e0pb4 TIL it takes more water to make a water bottle than the water it contains
neEmb TIL that Victor Marchetti's 1974 work "The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence" was the first book subject to pre-publication censorship by the US government. The book was published with gaps showing where text had been excised and bold text where CIA censorship demands had been overturned by a court.
7l7x TIL although the stabbing death of indie rock icon Elliott Smith is widely believed to be a suicide his autopsy report lists his mode of death as “undetermined.” Hesitation wounds were absent, possible defensive wounds were found on his hands, and his name was misspelled on his suicide note.
4XjNa TIL that during WWII there was an event known as that 'Battle of Los Angeles'. Citizens and military thought the Japanese were attacking Los Angeles and fired AA guns into the sky. Turns out it was only a lost weather balloon.