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TIL about two families that escaped from East Germany by building a Hot Air Balloon

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b7jE TIL that a British sharpshooter nearly killed an unaware George Washington before the Battle of Brandywine, but the shooter decided against it because Washington’s back was turned.
oBNKA TIL in the event of Britain being destroyed and her government wiped out, there is a safe on four nuclear equipped submarine that contains the Prime Ministers ‘Letters Of Last Resort’. Nobody except the PM knows what it says.
b6Md9 TIL Abe Vigoda, who played Salvatore Tessio in the Godfather, was not mentioned during the In Memoriam segment at the Oscars after he died.
xVyx7 TIL that during the Watergate scandal, Martha Mitchel (then wife of Nixon's AG) was kidnapped, beaten and forcibly sedated by her husband's security detail to keep her from speaking to reporters
ZRXQ TIL for 256 years, Irish beer company Guinness used fish bladders to filter their iconic Dark Stout. In late 2015, the company agreed to change this centuries-old tradition to accommodate vegans.