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TIL Leon Trotsky and Frida Kahlo had a brief affair

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kOWxW TIL about the mobile offshore base (MOB) a proposed idea for a super-massive naval ship for performing military operations where regular land bases are not present.
rNmkM TIL that Oliver Law was the first African American to lead US troops into war during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), as part of the Lincoln volunteer batalion
N7LVP TIL On average, the sun rotates on its axis once every 27 days. However, its equator spins the fastest and takes about 24 days to rotate, while the poles take more than 30 days
GAnaQ TIL Children can suffer of dementia
Wk0Xd TIL that in 1983 the head of a woman was found in a peat bog in England. A man assumed it belonged to his wife, who he had murdered and dumped in the bog in 1961, and made a full confession. The remains were dated and discovered to be 1750 years old. The man was still convicted of his wife's murder.