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TIL Vladimir Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent

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pYxxA TIL in South Asia they call pajamas "night suits."
R5wJ6 TIL The Twilight Zone's Rod Serling tested parachutes as a part time job. The amount of money he earned depended on the danger of the jump. In one instance, he earned $1,000 for testing a jet ejection seat that had killed the previous three testers.
Bg7Pk TIL Germany still pays pensions to Nazi Collaborators in Belgium, UK and other countries.
NXdJM TIL that while it's a grain agriculturally, a vegetable culinarily, corn is botanically a fruit
OWe4 TIL that comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter in 1994, after being broken apart from Jupiter’s tidal gravity. One fragment struck the planet’s surface with the estimated energy of 6 million megatons of TNT (600 times the world’s nuclear arsenal) and created a dark spot over 12,000 km across.