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TIL Dick Seaman became a Nazi sporting legend after he was personally chosen to race for Mercedes-Benz by Adolf Hitler, and later died in a racing accident in 1939

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GYKK7 TIL Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was a Haitian engineer who lost his life on the Titanic.He was one of only 3 passengers of known African ancestry on the ill-fated voyage of RMS Titanic. He put his pregnant French wife and their two daughters onto a lifeboat;they survived but sadly he did not.
WBd8 TIL the Mayor of Lake Worth, FL swam across the Lake Worth Lagoon in 1998 to raise awareness of how dirty it had become. After completing the swim, he spent three days in the hospital and nearly died.
9YP96 TIL Candace Bergen’s ventriloquist father left $10,000 to his dummy, Charlie McCarthy, and $0 to her. Charlie also had his own bedroom, which was bigger than hers. She also recalls "A gentle squeeze on the back of my neck was my cue to open and shut my mouth so he could ventriloquize me.”
W7d1d TIL that one of the reasons for the title “Final Fantasy” is the fact that Square Enix was under threat of bankruptcy, meaning that the game may have been their last.
d9QE TIL US continues to violate U.N. Convention Against Torture signed 20 years ago