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TIL Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was a figure skater. In 1914, while living in Canada, he joined an Ottawa club and competed at the Ellis Memorial Cup in Boston.

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M7R87 TIL about Oliver Sipple a man who stopped an assasination attempt on US president Gerald Ford in 1975, however the news also told that this man was gay and because of that it generated great controversy, even so that the president only wrote a note thanking him and his family disowned him.
KO7xR TIL That premature babies were used as sideshow attractions and were considered novelties
BDdK TIL The members of Daft Punk were originally members of a rock group called Darlin’. An early negative review of their work in Melody Maker dismissed the music as “a bunch of daft punky thrash.” Which is what inspired their name.
16G1W TIL The LSST Camera has a (3,200 megapixel/3.2 gigapixel) sensor that can take images with high enough resolution to see a golf ball from (24 kilometers/15 miles) away; the images are so large that it would take 378 4K ultra-high-definition TV screens to display one of them in full size.
epk5L TIL that you can bring pizza on a flight as carry or checked item