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TIL that Lisbeth Salander (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) is based off of what the Stieg Larsson thought Pippi Longstocking might be like as an adult

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8eMvK TIL Jimmy Carter is the only US president who has reported seeing an UFO
neR07 TIL of the Second Mexican Empire where Napoleon ruthlessly took advantage of a distracted America post Civil-War by engaging in an imperial plan to annex Mexico into the French sovereignty. Napoleon aimed to create a New Virginia Colony in central Mexico & exempted new colonists from paying taxes.
wLLb7 TIL - That the American lullaby "Go to Sleep" was composed by Johannes Brahms.
oB4Rr TIL before the Beatles' film, A Hard Day's Night was released in America, an executive asked the director to dub the voices of the group with mid-Atlantic accents. Paul McCartney angrily replied, "Look, if we can understand a fucking cowboy talking Texan, they can understand us talking Liverpool."
Oorka TIL that Polaris, the famous north star at the tail end of the little dipper constellation, is actually 3 stars very close together that look like a single star