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TIL The last known person to be photographed with John Lennon was Mark David Chapman, his future assassin.

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jNdvX TIL that Adolf Hitler could not prove who his grandfather was, as his father was born illegitimately and his paternity was never established, meaning he could not prove his own "Aryan descent"
v1kLx TIL the name Woodchuck for groundhogs doesn't have anything to do with wood. It's thought to be a corruption of the Native American words wejack, woodshaw, or woodchoock. It may have its roots in the Algonquian (or perhaps Narragansett) name for the animal: wuchak.
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