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TIL, in 1947, the FBI considered “It’s A Wonderful Life” to be Communist propaganda

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69NNm TIL of Armand Gagné, a peasant boy who was adopted by Marie Antoinette. After her carriage almost ran over the 5-year-old, she became so delighted with his appearance that she took him with her. The boy did not want to go and wished to stay with his family but she forcibly adopted him anyway.
xVOnw TIL that in the 1950s there was a British plan to plant nuclear mines in Germany to prevent a potential Soviet invasion with the mines being kept warm in the winter using live chickens. The idea was considered so outlandish it when it was declassified it was thought to be an April Fools joke..
KYdbw TIL that the Nazis also killed ~1.8 million residents of Poland who were not Jewish, because they considered them racially inferior.
YpYGx TIL If you divide 1 by 998001, the result contains every number from 000 to 999 except for 998.
o0AY TIL about the “God of the internet”. Jon Postel, until 1998 he was the single person responsible for assigning internet addresses