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TIL Teller from Penn & Teller has legally changed his name to just “Teller”.

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GAVL1 Today I learned that the name Operation Bagration was given by Stalin to honor the name of Pyotr Bagration, who was heavily wounded in the Battle of Borodino. Bagration died after a couple of weeks and he was a Georgian as Stalin.
O90e TIL in 1868, samurai killed 11 French sailors. Over 30 samurai were ordered to commit suicide for the injustice; when the number was reduced to 20, the indignant samurai cut out their own intestines and flung them at the French. The sentence was then reduced to 11
rWAy TIL Japan does not officially recognize North Korea
N7QrQ TIL of The 1 Percent Rule. This rule states that only 1% of an Internet community creates new content. The rest of the community is divided between content editors (9%) and content viewers (90%).
NXejM TIL that the Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE) is the only airport in the USA and perhaps the world to have a used bookstore: a branch of Renaissance Books.