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TIL the United States is the country with the most Nobel Prize winners

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eplDb TIL that Elaine Stritch auditioned for the role of Dorothy Zbornak from The Golden Girls and almost got the role. Stritch went in for a reading, but cursed during her audition—and irked the writer and lost the part to Bea Arthur.
N75eQ TIL that Adolf Hitler's remains were exhumed in the 1970s and incinerated. The ashes were flushed into the city's sewage system
Djvp TIL that Texas no longer offers last meals to Death Row inmates prior to their executions.
nWBPP TIL while filming the witch burning scene in Day of Wrath, director Carl Theodor Dreyer decided to leave the actress tied to a wooden ladder while the crew went for lunch. He used her genuine distress to film the scene
gMaB7 TIL in an effort to demonstrate time dilation, a father and his kids drove three atomic clocks up Mt. Rainier. The measured effect was just over 20 nanoseconds, matching Einstein's theory of relativity.