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TIL Nelson Mandela was long time friends with Moammar Gaddafi and Fidel Castro.

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Egnkx TIL The Stranger (1946) was the first Hollywood film to include footage of the Holocaust. The film's director, Orson Welles, who saw footage at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in May 1945, described the newsreels as "putrefaction of the soul, a perfect spiritual garbage"
YpgK7 TIL: Aleksandr Karelin, the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time, who won 3 Olympic golds, 12 European Championships and 9 World Championships. His PhD was devoted to countermeasures against suplex throws. He suffered 2 losses, one of which was against a Wyomingite farmer who wrestled cows.
Rja6 TIL For 200 years tomatoes were considered poisonous in Europe - in reality their acidity was dissolving poisonous metals from plates
Br70W TIL that the astronauts of Apollo couldn't get life insurance, so they signed items that their families could auction in case the landing went wrong
wXnE TIL - One of the longest recorded sniper kill is nearly 1.75 miles and was shot by an Australian in Afghanistan last year.