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TIL Josef Stalin has a granddaughter living in Portland
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TIL N.Rothschild had early info that Napoleon lost at Waterloo, and used that info at the London stock exchange: instead of buying, he sold shares en masse, making people think that Napoleon had won and plummeting the stocks. At the last minute he started buying at low prices, thus making a fortune
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TIL That the Allies secretly built two entire portable harbors in the UK and towed them across the English Channel right after D-Day to attach to the just-captured beachheads. One was damaged in a storm. The other landed over 2.5 million men, 500,000 vehicles, and 4 million tons of supplies.
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TIL the math used in the body switching episode of Futurama is a real theorem created by the Futurama writer Ken Keeler, who has a PHD in applied mathematics.
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TIL That during the temperance and Prohibition movements, it was a commonly believed myth that alcohol abuse could lead to spontaneous combustion.
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TIL that a annual tradition at some minor league hockey games around Christmas is to throw stuffed animals on the field for charity when the home team scores a goal. The unofficial record is held by the Hershey Bears with 45,650