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TIL God Bless America was written by a Russian guy.

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nWo49 TIL that the two earliest versions of The Scream by Edvard Munch were created with egg tempera and crayon on cardboard. These editions are now in the Oslo National Gallery and the Munch Museum.
RVPw TIL: The flags left on the moon have been bleached white because of radiation
P15kL TIL The last words of serial killer Peter Kürten were "Tell me... after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures."
78a1b TIL Russian Czar Ivan the Terrible beat his daughter-in-law so badly that she miscarried her baby. When his son was angry about the beating, Ivan struck his heir in the head so fiercely that he died 5 days later.
wokGJ TIL That from 1909-1937 the Netherlands had the time zone UTC+ 19 minutes 32.13 seconds