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TIL that Olivia Wilde‘s birth name is Olivia Jane Cockburn

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JXPm TIL that the Soyuz 11 depressurised 168km above the earch killing the 3 man crew. It was not found that they were dead until the re-entry vehicle was opened, the ground crew even attempted CPR on the crew members even though they had been dead for hours.
Z8DZp TIL Robert Lane named his sons Winner and Loser. Winner Lane became a small-time crook, racking up over 30 arrests and a stint in state prison, while Loser Lane was a star student and athlete, who became a police detective in New York City.
gdwX TIL the fork came to Italy before any other European country because of pasta
E1vRp TIL Neil Gaiman wrote the script for the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki's classic film Princess Mononoke
K4PQ TIL that during the Panic of 1893, JP Morgan used $60 million in bonds to bail out the United States government.