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TIL that his mother was the only person that Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was afraid of.

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M7E67 TIL: Katherine Knight is the first woman in Australia to be sentenced to life. She murdered her partner and tried to feed him to his children. They had an on-off relationship due to Knight's violent behavior, but she was good with kids. She now has a leadership and mediator position in prison.
6ERPY TIL Ian Fleming took the name for his James Bond character from an ornithologist James Bond. He explained to the real Bond's wife he needed unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine name. The real Bond did not learn of the identity theft until the early 1960s when the 007 books became popular.
1OMX TIL air conditioning in the United States has a global-warming impact equivalent to every US household driving an extra 10,000 miles per year
7rx6P TIL foxes utilize the earth's magnetic field as a targeting system to find prey
XeaE TIL Black People Were Actually Placed in Zoos