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TIL - The only Jewish Community to not lose a single Person to the Holocaust was in the Greek island of Zakynthos - Nazi’s demanded the Bishop to write the names down but were handed a paper with only the Bishop’s and Mayor’s name on it

e0vbE TIL that the water which is shipped to the International Space Station all comes from 2 sources in Italy. One source supplies water for the USA segment of the ISS and the other source to the Russian side based on the tastes of the astronauts and the method used to purify the water on board.
OjLa TIL Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the first head of the British SIS, had a wooden leg which he would suddenly stab with a pen knife in the middle of agent interviews. If the man flinched, he wasn’t fit to be an agent.
OoDNX TIL In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when a 9yr-old Black boy refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.
Lk4Lv TIL E.Kelly, singer for Scottish band "The Vaselines" cites Nirvana as the only reason he ever made money from music royalties. The band was largely unknown outside of Scotland before K.Cobain, a fan of theirs, covered some of their songs and invited them to open high profile gigs for Nirvana
ANRLd TIL Magnús Scheving (Sportacus of Lazy Town) made a bet with his friend that either would master a sport of the other's choosing (that they knew nothing about) within three years. Both successfully became national champions of aerobics and snooker respectively.