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TIL a 90-Year-Old Lady Seduced and Killed Nazis as a Teenager

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MvB0 TIL Joe Pesci’s Oscar acceptance speech is one of the shortest of all time at 5 words. He said: “It’s my privilege. Thank you.”
4X8V5 TIL when novelist Shirley Jackson, author of the short story “The Lottery”, was checked into the hospital in 1948 to deliver her 3rd child, the clerk asked her to state her occupation. “Writer”, she replied. The clerk responded, “I’ll just put down housewife.”
NQ0J TIL there have been over 200 flavors of Kit-Kat in Japan
XNJR TIL that due to honey’s unique properties, it can remain preserved and edible for centuries
0wN9N TIL There is an artificial hill in Italy, over 100 feet tall, made entirely of empty olive oil pots, carefully placed over a period of 250 years by ancient Romans.