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TIL that the father of French author Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers, etc.) was simultaneously born into slavery & nobility & became the highest ranking person of color of all time in a European Army.

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x6VGB TIL about Bradford Bishop, who allegedly killed his wife, mother and three sons in 1976. Bishop was only removed from the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted List in 2018, due to his advanced age, and is still being pursued by the FBI, as there have been sightings of Bishop across Europe for 40 years.
py94 TIL: Randy Quaid (National Lampoon’s Cousin Eddy) is a wanted felon
JEJl TIL that, since 1950, acceptance of an Academy Award statuette requires that neither winners nor their heirs may sell the statuettes without first offering to sell them back to the Academy for US$1. If a winner refuses to agree to this stipulation, then the Academy keeps the statuette.
VB1MQ TIL of the Salon Kitty, a high-class Berlin brothel used by the Nazi intelligence service, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), for espionage purposes during World War II. Notable guests include Galeazzo Ciano (Mussolini's son-in-law), SS General Sepp Dietrich, Joseph Goebbels, and Reinhard Heydrich.
NlXe TIL of “I am Rich”, a $999.99 app which did nothing except state that you are rich. It was bought by eight people before being taken down by Apple.