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TIL Peter Dinklage's brother is an accomplished violinist, who performed on the original Broadway recording of Hamilton. Peter describes him as "the real performer of the family".

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6EVDm TIL that 844 people died aboard the SS Eastland because it had too MANY lifeboats. After the Titanic disaster, Congress passed laws requiring more lifeboats. This made the SS Eastland too top-heavy, and in 1915, it capsized before even leaving the dock.
vP8B4 TIL the first global attempt to boycott a modern Olympics was in 1936 when they were being hosted in far right Nazi-controlled Germany. Anti-fascist people in Barcelona were set to host an alternative called "Olimpíada Popular" but it was cancelled due to a far right power grab in Spain at that time
Z6rR TIL the belief that anyone who disagrees with you must be stupid, uninformed, irrational, or worse is a logical fallacy called Naïve realism.
WkbMB TIL about the Baedeker blitz, when the Nazis used German guidebooks to British towns (Baedeker was the Lonely Planet of the day) to select bombing targets that would demoralize the British.
gWRb TIL the longest coma ever recorded is 37 years and 111 days.