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TIL: The television was invented by a 14 year old.

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69GZw TIL Mad Money host and stock market huckster Jim Cramer was a member of the Spartacist League (communists) in college
R5ZRl TIL Among other ships used in the production of the film “The Battle of the River Plate”, the warships HMS Cumberland and HMNZS Achilles played themselves since they had both survived the war.
gygL TIL of Helmuth Hübener, the youngest opponent of the Nazis to be sentenced to death. Upon receiving his sentence, he told the judges “Now I must die, even though I have committed no crime. So now it’s my turn, but your turn will come.”
GYYm4 TIL Antarctica is classified as a desert because it has less than 25 cm rain per year.
4X5wX TIL the Adoration Of The Magi is an unfinished work by Leonardo da Vinci commissioned by a Florentine monastery in 1480. Consistent with his proneness to abandon projects, he eventually grew bored with it, simply left, and moved to Milan. The monastery paid Filippino Lippi to complete it instead.