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TIL Liam Neeson's wife died on a bunny slope while taking a ski lesson at Mt. Tremblant in Quebec

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4Xjg6 TIL In 1980 Marienetta Jirkowsky became the youngest and last woman killed attempting to cross the Berlin Wall. Fleeing East Germany with a friend and her fiance she was shot by border guards and died at the age of 18.
JYk5l TIL that the U.S. Constitution gives the Senate the sole power to declare war and that the last time they did was for WWII.
DLPV TIL TED revokes your TED fellowship if you don’t attend every event of the conference, per the fellowship agreement. Writer Eddie Huang later went on to compare TED to a “Scientology summer camp”.
grAGL Today I learned Zambia, I country in Southern Africa tried to go to Mars in an oil drum
rl14 TIL Mr. Snuffleupagus’s first name is Aloysius. Aloysius Snuffleupagus.