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TIL the last Grand Duchess of Russia passed away in 1960 in a small Toronto apartment

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NZXE TIL that trains have conical wheels because there is no differential; when the train turns one wheel will travel a greater distance than the other
7rG7O TIL that the finnish language did not have a written form before the mid-16th century, when it was created essentially by one man, Mikael Agricola, who wanted to translate the bible from latin to his native finnish
o0AY TIL about the “God of the internet”. Jon Postel, until 1998 he was the single person responsible for assigning internet addresses
GYk5 TIL that the Iranian Nuclear Program really got off the ground in 1976 when Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld convince President Ford to sell Plutonium to Iran.
awKwL TIL in Germany you can’t be prosecuted if you help a close family member to hide the body of someone they murdered. The state regards the inseverability of family as a greater good than its own desire to prosecute crime.