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TIL the Iranian and Polish peoples have had a close relationship ever since Iran welcomed Polish refugees in WWII

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OoQxe TIL about corriearklet, the word describing the moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven’t, to avoid the embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor.
eprnk TIL when Emma Stone registered for the Screen Actors Guild at age 16, the name Emily Stone, her birth name, was already taken. She briefly went by Riley Stone but switched to Emma because it was difficult to adapt to Riley.
e0D44 TIL John Steinbeck’s dog, Toby, ate his manuscript of Of Mice and Men. There was no other draft. Steinbeck said of the incident, “I was pretty mad but the poor little fellow may have been acting critically. I didn’t want to ruin a good dog for a ms (manuscript), I’m not sure is good at all.”
8a7KP TIL 76 years ago yesterday, Dutch partisan Willem Arondeus was executed for bombing a public records office in Amsterdam, in an effort to prevent Nazi identification of local Jews. His last words were "Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards!"
VBlEZ TIL Lucuis Quinctius Cincinnatus was voted dictator during a desperate war with the Aequi around 458 BC. He assumed complete control of the state, achieved victory in 16 days, relinquished his powers and returned to his farm. He may have been appointed dictator again to suppress an "uprising of the