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TIL there is a Russian adaptation of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, titled It’s Always Sunny in Moscow where a group of friends own a bar in Moscow called Philadelphia

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d8bEQ TIL The Siege of Stalingrad resulted in more Russian deaths (military and civilian) than the US and Britain sustained (combined) in all of World War II.
7rxyO TIL while Victoria Beckham said that she designed a car that she wanted to drive when she took part in creating her own edition of the Range Rover Evoque, Beckham only drove that model of the Evoque 1400 miles in three years, and reportedly sold it because she didn't have an use for it.
wLvB8 TIL Stalin had a son who he hated and who was later captured by the nazis. The nazis thought they could use him as a bargaining chip to trade to his father Joseph in return for Nazi generals. In response, Stalin said, "I do not trade generals for soldiers" Stalin's son would later kill himself.
KYAmG TIL in 1985, drug smugglers dropped 40 containers of cocaine from a plane above Tennessee because the plane was too heavy. 3 months later, investigators found the containers and a dead black bear that had consumed 75 pounds of the drug. It’s stomach was “literally packed to the brim with cocaine.”
E5Nd TIL that mustard gas led to chemotherapy. During a World War II air raid, German pilots hit an American ship which had a secret stockpile of mustard gas. Doctors noticed that the gas suppressed cell division, which could fight cancer.