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TIL that helicopter escapes from prison are not only real but highly successful

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wJvM TIL Filmmaker Wes Anderson is the great-grandson of Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs
6ELgw TIL that 6 nations in the EU have banned the wearing of the traditional Islamic burka (similar to hijab) mostly on grounds that it is a cultural clash.
P1ApV TIL there are 3 species of frogs in the mini genus called mini ature, mini mum, and mini scule
GnJ7 TIL In 1933 Nazis gave 60,000 Zionist Jews $100,000,000 dollars (worth $1.6 billion in 2009) and helped them settle in Palestine.
Y7ODr TIL the original title of Mein Kampf (A. Hitler, 1925) was Viereinhalb Jahre (des Kampfes) gegen Lüge, Dummheit und Feigheit, which translates as Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice. Max Amann, the head of Eher Verlag, suggested the catchier title.