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TIL that Coco Chanel sold her perfume recipe to Jews, then got the Nazis to try and help her get it back when it became popular.

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N7Q0M TIL: In 1963, major league baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, an hour after Neil Armstrong set foot on the surface of the moon, Perry hit is first, and only, home run while playing for the San Francisco Giants.
mxlDR TIL purple butterfly stickers on incubators are for infants with a twin whom passed away
kJd6d TIL that the current solicitor general of the U.S., which represents the federal govt. before the Supreme Court, was Miss Idaho before her legal career
0yJN TIL George Washington died when his doctors tried to cure his epiglottitis (i.e. inflamed throat) with blood letting. He lost more than half his blood before they stopped the treatment, and died just hours later.
4wg5 TIL that while mathematician Kurt Gödel prepared for his U.S. citizenship exam he discovered an inconsistency in the constitution that could, despite of its individual articles to protect democracy, allow the USA to become a dictatorship.