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TIL Marilyn Monroe was actually Jewish, converting after marriage.

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WkJlX TIL: Euler's work touched upon so many fields that in an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, many discoveries are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.
VBY64 TIL there are more than 1,000 types of bananas in the world!
pZm8 TIL that in the 1983 Monopoly championship, a player sold his 3 hotels for 12 houses in order to lessen the number of house tokens that his opponents could use. The move was called a “forced building shortage” and was ruled illegal.
xBMb TIL As a final bit of humor, Leslie Nielsen chose “Let ‘er rip” as his epitaph.
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