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TIL Bruce Willis has been sober since 1988

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GAQ64 TIL Germany still legally recognizes "Aryan certificates" that were issued by the Nazi government from 1933 to 1945.
QJ6kM TIL 17% of Poland's population was killed during WW2
e0aY5 TIL in 1982, two ex-members of the band Yes started a new band, Cinema. The actual band Yes still existed at that point, but broke up shortly afterward. Two of Yes's ex-members then joined Cinema. At that point Cinema just decided to become the band Yes.
BlDy TIL that from 1808 to 1821, the capital of Portugal was moved to Rio de Janeiro, making it the only European country to have been ruled from its colonies.
JYMnV TIL that Bill Gates didn't create MS-DOS from scratch. He just bought Q-DOS (Quick and Dirty Operating system) for $75,000. Q-DOS was a rip off of CP/M, the standard OS of most PCs in early 1980s. The virtual clone of Q-DOS, MS-DOS was licensed to IBM in a historic deal and the rest is history.