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TIL Switzerland had enough nuclear fallout shelters to preserve it's entire population

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jlvR TIL Pedro, the son of King Afonso IV of Portugal, was forbidden by the king to marry the woman he loved. King Afonso had her murdered to keep them apart. When Pedro became king, he hunted down her assassins and had their hearts torn out, symbolic of what they had done to him
5VW0p TIL Army Ranger Sgt. Bill Foulk called his army buddies for backup when the Crips street gang try to take over his house he bought in a rough neighborhood in Tacoma, WA.
R66l TIL Oscar winner Ingrid Bergman’s divorce from her husband in 1950 (to marry her lover Italian director Roberto Rossellini) was so scandalous a US Senator proposed a bill that would require films to be rated not just for on screen content, but the moral character of the actors involved as well.
epDQg TIL The world standard telescope for Sun monitoring is set by a 2.4" refracting telescope at the Zurich Observatory in Switzerland. Anything larger will reveal too many sunspots that will skew the actual total
GrvN TIL that the fuel for each of Nazi Germany’s V2 rockets was made from 30 tons of potatoes.