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TIL that Shakespeare was heavily influenced by the prophecies of Nostradamus

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9wARr TIL of Marcus McDilda - a P-51 Mustang pilot shot down over Japan two days after the first atomic bombing. Tortured by the Japanese to learn U.S. atomic bomb capabilities, he told his captors the U.S. had 100 atomic bombs that would be dropped on Tokyo and Kyoto within "the next few days."
471g TIL that starting in the late 1970s the US Army spent $20 million paying psychics to generate military intelligence. The program was terminated in 1995 after producing no useful information.
KQ4 TIL Betty White has been nominated for an Emmy in six different decades
9jYQ TIL that the band Rammstein was named after the Ramstein air show disaster, a mid-air collision between 3 stunt planes that killed 70 people and wounded approximately 1,000 people.
X05nP TIL: Lutz Long a Nazi German long jumper who shared training tips to Jesse Owens and was the first to congratulate him despite being in in full view of Adolf Hitler