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TIL A day in earth increases 1.8 milliseconds every century
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TIL that Nikola Tesla was born around midnight, between July 9 and July 10, 1856 during a fierce lightning storm.
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TIL that in the 1930’s,the United States banned women from showing their bellybuttons in Hollywood films. When the ban was finally lifted, Marilyn Monroe was quoted as saying, “I guess the censors are willing to recognize that everybody has a navel.”
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TIL before he was assassinated, Archduke Franz Ferdinand had plans to federalize his empire, creating the United States of Greater Austria.
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TIL the 'Cookie Monster' character from Sesame Street was originally created to advertise Munchos potato crisps in the 1960s, and was later adapted for Sesame Street munching on cookies instead.
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TIL Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place, Vienna, in 1913.