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TIL actress Jamie Lee Curtis is a noblewoman by marriage to Spinal Tap's Christopher Guest who is a Lord by birthright

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BQJx TIL that Patagonia (clothing company) has a “bail fund” that is used when an employee is arrested while participating in a nonviolent expressions of activism for environmental causes.
MenLB TIL that if February, Germany charged a 95 year old woman with 10,000 counts of aiding and abetting murder because she was a stenographer for a SS officer at a concentration camp when she was 17. She lives in a nursing home, but if the case goes to trial, she will be tried in juvenile court.
kgLW TIL Meher Baba (an Indian spiritual master) didn’t speak for the last 44 years of his life
78m9x TIL That Polar Bears Have Black Skin Under Their Fur
0wZy TIL 120 years ago a man dug up his daughters grave believing she was a vampire. He cut out her heart, burned it & made tea with the ashes. He forced his sick son to drink it, thinking it’d cure his son of becoming a vampire.