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TIL Bill Simm's 25-year Career at Transamerica, where he was elevated to President of the Reinsurance Division, was ended when the Charlotte Observer Discovered his Resume was riddled with lies including degrees and an Olympic Gold medal in 1968

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69All TIL, Aleksandr Komin kept 6 people as prisoners in a 30-feet deep bunker under his garage forcing them to work 16 hours a day. When two women tried to escape, they were caught and Aleksandr tattooed "РАБ"(Russian for "slave") on their faces.
Z857D TIL of a cookie coffee cup insulated to drink coffee and eat the cup after
OGnye TIL that Dorothy's line to the Scarecrow 'I think I'll miss you most of all' is a holdover from the original script where she and the farmhand played the same actor had a romance
0wx95 TIL that when Patton invaded Germany, Marlene Dietrich accompanied him. When asked why she would be at the front lines, she replied "out of decency". Billy Wilder noted she was at the front more often than Eisenhower.
b9YVZ TIL that the aviation distress call "Mayday" was created in 1923 and derives from the French "m'aidez" or "help me"