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TIL, actor Clark Gable fought in WW2 and almost got killed once. When word of this reached MGM, studio executives began to badger the Army Air Forces to reassign him to noncombat duty. Also, Hitler was a fan and offered a sizable reward to anyone who could capture and bring Gable to him unscathed.

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1a6Q4 TIL after divorcing her foreign husband, Gossip Girl actress Kelly Rutherford got him deported by getting her legal team to report him for alleged business fraud. However, after he won child custody, her children were forced to move to France, and now she must travel there to see them.
16G87 TIL Anissa Weier, one of the Slenderman Stabbers was released from a mental hospital after serving 7yrs for attempted first degree intentional homicide. Her accomplice, Morgan Geyser withdrew her request for early release. Weier was sentenced to up to 25yrs in a psychiatric hospital.
XE4QP TIL about Frisland, a "phantom" island off the coast of Greenland which, despite being nonexistent, was charted on nearly every map of the North Atlantic from the 1560s to the 1660s
BgRYd TIL Bryan Adams co-wrote two songs for KISS that appear on their "Creatures of the Night" album (1982). Adams shares credit with Canadian songwriter Jim Vallance and Gene Simmons for the songs "War Machine" and "Rock and Roll Hell."
v14dR TIL that a German nurse was sentenced to life in prison without eligibility for parole after he murdered more than 85 patients because he wanted to show off his resuscitation skills and be the hero who saves them on the hospital bed