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TIL After Poland was partitioned between the European powers in the late 18th century, the Ottoman and Persian Empires were the only countries in the world to not accept it, with the Ottomans maintaining a Polish ambassador

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OGayY TIL that a fire destroyed most of Harvard Library’s collection in 1764. Only a small number of books were spared, including 144 that were checked out at the time. One of these books was found and returned in 1997!
M7Jm8 TIL Werner Herzog threatened to shoot Klaus Kinski—and then himself—on the set of Aguirre, the Wrath of God to prevent Kinski from walking off the job.
Oo9dR TIL When six-foot-eight Brad Garrett starred as Jackie Gleason in a 2002 biopic, his costars had to wear boots with 7 inch lifts to look normal.
KObA9 TIL of Lost Bird, a Lakota child who was found under the frozen corpse of her mother after four days in a snowbank, adopted by a General, and lived a brief, terrible life. Later buried at Wounded Knee.