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TIL of U.S. Secret Service agent Jerry Parr, who saved President Ronald Reagan's life during a 1981 assassination attempt. Parr was inspired to join the Secret Service by the 1939 movie "Code of the Secret Service"... which starred a young Ronald Reagan.

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DQapV TIL that Anne Frank's stepsister is still alive. Eva Schloss and her family lived in the same apartment block as the Franks, and she often played with Anne and Margot. She and her mother survived Auschwitz, and her mother resumed her friendship with Otto Frank after the war. They married in 1953.
78LkX TIL that in WW2, "unrestricted submarine warfare" - the sinking of merchant ships by submarines without warning - was ordered in response to allied aircraft illegally bombing a Nazi submarine under Red Cross banner openly attempting to rescue survivors of the RMS Laconia.
eJD TIL A robber who broke into hair salon was beaten by its black-belt owner and kept as a sex slave for three days… fed only Viagra
9w5Pm TIL that O.J. Simpson hosted an episode of SNL back on Season 3 Episode 12.
J1QMB TIL that Indigenous people reclaimed the island of Alcatraz for 19 months.