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TIL the Japanese attacked California in WWII in the Bombardment of Ellwood

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OrY6 TIL “Now is not the time for making new enemies” were allegedly the death bed words of Voltaire, after being asked by a priest to denounce Satan.
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9Y5RM TIL Adam Rainer was the only person to ever have both dwarfism and gigantism. At age 18 he measured (4ft 6in) and reached a height of (7ft 8in) by age 51.
wL4MM TIL Jeffrey Uhlmann (the creator if the unscented transform) besides developing tracking and navigation algorithms with an Oxford doctorate in Robotics also wrote, directed, produced and acted in Lucha Libre films
4rEN TIL that Freddie Mercury abandoned recording demos with Michael Jackson in 1983 because Jackson insisted on keeping his llama with him in the recording studio.