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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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X0k7P TIL Disney's "Corey in the House" has a Nintendo DS game and it has one of the highest rated user scores on the Metacritic. "Rarely does a work so groundbreaking and epic in scale exhibit such a visceral, searing arc of human pathos"
KYZLE TIL that the last Space Shuttle mission carried only 4 astronauts because of the contingency plan to accommodate them on ISS in case the orbiter had to be abandoned
P1glw TIL that Marvin the Martian only made five appearances in the original run of Looney Tunes cartoons.
VM7Em TIL that actor Danny Kaye was also a world-class Chinese cook and had an airline pilot's license.
NX4ZQ TIL Drake's Plate - a brass plaque initially believed to be inscribed & left by Sir Francis Drake at the site of his CA landfall & considered CA's greatest historic treasure at the time of its "discovery" - was a prank on historians by their peers that escalated out of control (despite many clues)