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TIL about Helmuth Von Mulkte. He is the only person born from 18th century whose voice was recorded.

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ANP8B TIL of the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime which was accused of spying for the west in East Germany and of being a communist front organization in West Germany.
jN90N TIL During the Middle Ages, small triangular-shaped stones — thought to be the tongues of snakes turned to stone by Saint Paul — were highly sought after as cures for poison and plagues. Centuries later, the “tongue stones” were identified as fossilized shark teeth.
KXnQ TIL the inventor of the LASER fought with both the US Patent office and LASER manufacturers for a period of 38 years before finally achieving the right to both obtain and enforce patents covering the LASER technology he invented.
8VnP TIL in the 1940’s Stetson Kennedy went undercover as a Klansman, gave Klan passwords to the writers of the popular “Superman” radio show, who used them in a story line in which Superman fights the KKK. Kennedy has been dubbed “the greatest single contributor to the weakening of the Ku Klux Klan”
RM91 TIL that the oldest commissioned naval vessel in the world is the USS Constitution. She was launched in 1797.