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TIL Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor who fled to South America after WW2, would use fake names to fly under the radar. One such name was, “Jose Mengele.”

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6Egl7 TIL Pres. Teddy Roosevelt was given strong coffee and puffs of cigar as a child to 'help' with his asthma. As an adult his coffee drinking became legendary and he drank up to 40 cups/day. His son, Theodore Jr., remarked that his father's ideal coffee cup might be "more in the nature of a bathtub"
8VMZ TIL there is a town in Botswana called Kanye. It it divided into two parliamentary constituencies, Kanye North and Kanye South.
nNOd TIL when Bill Clinton proposed to Hillary Clinton, he bought her the house she liked first and then said “you better marry me because I can’t live in it by myself.”
694RY TIL Belgium, Wisconsin has a large Luxembourgish population and Luxemburg, Wisconsin a large Belgian population due to a clerical error in processing their name applications
v5nK TIL that in 1897, an internal Western Union memo said that “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication”.