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TIL that boxing announcer Michael Buffer and UFC's announcer Bruce Buffer are long lost half-brothers that hadn't met until Michael was 49.

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PYnkL TIL about Ans van Dijk, a Jewish Dutch woman who was the only woman executed after WWII in the Netherlands. She was found guilty of treason by working for the nazis and betraying the hiding places of at least 145 other Jewish people including her own brother.
pYynQ TIL about The Pegging Act of 1943 (South Africa) which laid down that Indians should not be granted the right to acquire or own property in the area reserved for the Whites for a period of three years. This was 5 years before the official Apartheid laws were passed.
oRY9E TIL Mathematician Kurt Godel's wife Adele was employed as a dancer at a cabaret when they met. Aside from the continuing disapproval of his family, Adele faced rejection and isolation in the academic community as well, particularly when the couple settled at Princeton Institute for Advanced Study
5YkxP TIL about Swineburne island, an abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York used during the 19th and 20th century as a quarantine for infected passengers
mxDDO TIL that Alexander Hamilton founded the New York Post