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TIL Easter will be on April Fool’s Day in 2018

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XEPZP TIL about Freddie and Truus Oversteegen, THE TEENAGE GIRLS WHO SEDUCED AND KILLED NAZIS. They looked so young that no one suspected them as spies working against the Nazis. They would distract the Nazis by pretending to seduce them, and later would lure them off and do the killing themselves.
16XrD TIL that Lil Wayne once officiated a same-sex wedding while in jail
E1dJW TIL that Nazi leader Hermann Göring once claimed "No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Göring. You may call me Meyer.". This would later come back to haunt him as Allied bombers devastated Germany and citizens began to call him "Meyer".
bAp7 TIL a Japanese trader once mistakenly issued a trade selling 610,000 shares for 1 yen. The trade should have sold 1 share for 610,000 yen.
e07J TIL that 90% of Dutch, 89% of Norwegians, 86% of Swedes, and 86% of Danes can speak English, while only 85.18% of Canadians can.