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TIL Abba turned down a $1 billion offer to reunite
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TIL that at some point in 1847, the chief executioner of France informed the government that he was unable to carry out that day’s execution because he’d pawned the guillotine to pay off a debt and lacked the funds to buy it back
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TIL there's a digital format called DAISY designed for audio reading and navigation of books, and it requires a decryption key from the Library of Congress
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TIL that Princess Leia's hair in Star Wars was inspired by women of the Mexican revolution.
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TIL women's fallopian tubes are mobile parts of the reproductive tract. If a woman has one tube removed the remaining tube can travel to the opposite ovary to pick up eggs.
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TIL that the Association of German National Jews was a group of Jewish Germans who supported Hitler in the early 1930s hoping for assimilation, but its members were later persecuted and sent to concentration camps.