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TIL That the magician Teller, of Penn and Teller, has no first name. On his driver’s license it is marked NFN (no first name.)

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N7oBM TIL in 1932, Mussolini described antisemitism as a "German vice" and stated that "There was 'no Jewish Question' in Italy and could not be one in a country with a healthy system of government."
X0Vkr TIL that, among many other things, Air Force General Curtis LeMay is credited as being one of the two people that are responsible for Judo surviving World War II. Martial Arts training was banned for the populace during the Occupation of Japan, but LeMay instituted it into USAF training regimen.
XEk4R TIL NASA's spacecraft crawler transport vehicle gets 35 feet/gallon of diesel fuel.
VMArm TIL that Disney World has a highly complex underground tunnel system so that cast members and crew can travel throughout the park without ruining the magic of Disney World.
QJJ6E TIL The "Sweet'n Low" artificial sweetener name was derived from an 1863 song by Sir Joseph Barnby, which took both its title and lyrics from an Alfred Lord Tennyson poem, entitled The Princess: Sweet and Low.