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TIL infamous NYC mobster/hitman Bugsy Siegal offered to kill Nazi leaders Herman Goring and Joseph Goebbels in 1938, only relenting because of a mistresses’ pleas

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XD5E TIL Kanye West’s hook, ‘No one man should have that much power’, quotes a police officers response to a pivotal Harlem protest that Malcolm X organized
0wL0v TIL Cliff Edwards/Ukulele Ike, known for popularising the song Singin' in the Rain and voicing Jiminy Cricket, died penniless following three divorces and struggles with gambling and drinking. His unclaimed body went to the UCLA medical school until it was bought by Disney and given a proper burial.
R7jD4 TIL in the midnight of Dec 29, 2011 Samoa loses a day and jumps forward in time to Dec. 31, 2011 without experiencing Dec 30 as they move westward of international dateline. The switch was made to improve ties with major trade partners in Australia and New Zealand.
R6j6 TIL Tom Cruise sent letters and gifts to the boy who originally played the little boy in “Jerry Maguire” but was replaced by Jonathan Lipnicki, because he “just didn’t want that first actor to go to the movies, look at the screen and think he’d failed. I wanted him to love movies his entire life.”
GYKQg TIL that swimmers who take up synchronized swimming are not allowed to shave their legs because the hairs on their legs help them feel the water line more accurately when doing routines.