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TIL that Stalin’s granddaughter is a punk hippie Buddhist who runs an antique shop in Portland

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yQ6Gp TIL the closest living relatives of all animals are a group of single-celled organisms named the Choanoflagellates. We're far closer to them than we are to plants
QJKnL TIL that Hugh Laurie struggles with severe clinical depression. He first became aware of it when he saw two cars collide and explode in a demolition derby and felt bored rather than excited or frightened. As he said: “boredom is not an appropriate response to exploding cars".
xQDb TIL in 1958, the US Air Force made plans to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon and wanted it to visible by the naked eye on earth. They hoped it would boost American morale to counter the USSR’s advances in the space race. Project_A119
1aYgV TIL that Samwise Gamgee's daughter in Lord of the Rings was actually played by his real life daughter. After all these years she's back to act with him again!
v1KO4 TIL of Virginia Apgar who invented the Apgar score, a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child, and ended up saving countless lives.