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TIL Anne Frank’s father attempted to seek asylum in the US.

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GY8XJ TIL Jimmy Carter, LITERALLY averted a Nuclear Disaster in Ottawa Ontario, by being lowered into a nuclear reactor with a wrench.
PgnE TIL that literally has become an example of an autoantonym – a word with two opposite meanings
6ENPw TIL that Norman Greenbaum, artist of Spirit In The Sky, is actually Jewish. He was watching TV one night when he came across a country gospel star, thought it looked easy, and wrote his one hit wonder in 15 minutes. This Jewish artist’s song about Jesus sold 2 million copies in a year.
RVM8 TIL In 1906 the Bronx Zoo, NYC put an African Man on display in the Monkey house…
aWGo TIL Rick James and his wife kidnapped a 24-year-old girl as a sex slave and torture puppet in 1993