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TIL that there were several abortive assassination attempts on Hitler’s life before Stauffenberg finally went ahead with Operation Valkyrie on July 20th 1944.

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VGM4 TIL that 1 in 200 US births are to mothers who report that they have never had sex. Relative to “non-virgin” mothers not only do these mothers report lower communication from their parents about sex/contraception, but they were also younger and more likely to have signed chastity pledges.
wL6bJ TIL: A storage building in Geneva airport holds about $100 billion worth of artworks
wZVY TIL Helena Bonham Carter accidentally ruptured the eardrum of Matthew Lewis (playing Neville Longbottom) when she stuck her wand in his ear during HP and the Order of the Phoenix.
16ajW TIL that East India Company was actually a private corporation with an army of around 260,000 soldiers, twice the size of the army of Britain.
Ego4x TIL some women born with a double uterus (Uterus didelphys) actually have two periods per month, and require two samples to be taken during smear tests, one from each cervix