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TIL German poet “Heinrich Heine” left his entire estate to his wife, but with one condition: she had to remarry “because then there will be at least one man to regret my death.”

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QB5X TIL the actress who played the Yellow Power Ranger also plays the (always naked) foreign exchange student in Not Another Teen Movie
OpY7 TIL of the Russky Bridge, a bridge that connects Vladivostok to Russky Island and cost roughly $1.1 billion US to build. It has enough capacity for 50,000 cars daily but only 5000 people live on the island so it is largely seen as a huge waste of money
VMpBZ TIL that Einstein was an excellent violinist saying that "life without playing music is inconceivable for me".
oB7wK TIL that in 1959, Martin Luther King Jr. made an impromptu stop at the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation to meet with tribal leaders whom he was "fascinated" by. This visit would later lead Dr. King to speak out against the government's treatment, both past & present, of Native Americans.
PenV TIL there is a village in the Netherlands comprised entirely of people with dementia. It’s been called a “Truman Show for the elderly.”