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TIL Johnny Cash was the first radio operator to receive the news of Joseph Stalin’s death.

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9Yn7Q TIL as homage and in-joke, Quentin Tarantino named Mike Myers character from Inglourious Basterds "General Ed Feneche" to honor 1970s era Italian scream queen and sex symbol Edwige Fenech.
78yWZ TIL that the ancient Maya pyramid El Castillo mimics the chirping sound of the quetzal bird when humans clap their hands around it. Researches argue this is not accidental, as the builders of this temple felt divinely rewarded by the echoing effect of this structure.
Y7XJG TIL the average person produces 11,000 gallons (41600 L) of pee in their lifetime, enough to fill up two 16-foot above ground pools two times.
oBOZR TIL of Operation Bloodstone, a CIA project to recruit former Nazis and collaborators to conduct "psychological warfare, subversion, sabotage, [...] assassination, target capture and rescue". Many hired agents were high ranking Nazis, some of which had committed crimes against humanity.
1awNd TIL of Eric Hoffer, a writer and philosopher, who went blind from age 7 to 15. He was so afraid he would go blind again that he spent his life reading, studying and writing everything he could before he lost his sight again (which he never did).