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TIL Malika Oufkir, daughter of a Moroccan politician who failed at the coup d'etat in 1977, and her mother and siblings spent 15 years in the desert prison before escaping in 1991.

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R7pj6 TIL that in Indiana. A cat attacked an intruder, protecting it's owner and kept attacking him until police came and arrested the intruder.
LQd1Q TIL that, as per his final request, the heart of Frédéric Chopin was removed and given to his sister who smuggled it into Poland and buried it at a local church.
woAP7 TIL about Charles Dickens’ son Frank, who joined the predecessors of Canada’s iconic Mounties after failing the British Foreign Office exams, losing his officer’s commission in the Bengal Mounted Police, and “squandering his inheritance on poor investments and disssipated living."
kJdN4 TIL: American inventor William Richardson created an enhanced swimming apparatus around 1880, enabling users to reach speeds between 4 and 6 miles per hour. The device utilized a central longitudinal shaft to transfer cranking movements of hands and feet to a four-bladed propeller.
nWnxY TIL that in 1963, the song “Ue o Muite Aruko” became the first Japanese-language song to top the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. The song was written to express frustration at American military bases being allowed to remain in Japan.