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TIL One of Portugal's best-known writers was a mechanic who hadn't even been to school.

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p8daO TIL over 800,000 women served in the Red Army during World War 2, a significant portion of whom did so in combat roles; there were female snipers, machine-gunners, anti-air gunners, tank crews and even pilots, with some bomber regiments being made up entirely of women, including the ground crews.
loxjB TIL: Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin shared a tortoise
WkGVB TIL thanks to the U.S. version of the sitcom "The Office", Scranton, Pennsylvania has gone from a former coal city into a major tourist attraction, revitalizing its downtown area
v1PmK TIL that after the 1946 Italian Republic referendum, all members of the House of Savoy (House of the king of Italy) were required to leave the country and neither they nor their descendants were to set foot in Italy ever again. The provision was repealed in 2002
eean TIL: The GPS coordinates in the last season of Breaking Bad are actually the coordinates for Albuquerque Studios where Breaking Bad was filmed.