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TIL Frederick the Great and Voltaire once exchanged rebuses.

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R7KLw TIL jewish scholars openly admit that 40% of jewish households owned slaves in the US.
pj5e TIL: A guy volunteered to get imprisoned at Auschwitz in order to gather the first intelligence report on the camp. He then organized a resistance movement and informed the Western Allies of Nazi atrocities. He then escaped from the camp and took part in the Warsaw Uprising. Whoa.
XEAJr TIL Jesus' historical name would most likely have been Yeshua ben Yosef haNotzri, which means: "Joshua, son of Joseph of Nazareth"
mxyVv TIL that when actress Natascha McElhone's husband suddenly died, she continued to write letters to him. Most of the letters simply described the minutiae of daily life, but some expressed her and their children's loss. She compiled all the letters into a book.
ADxNB TIL that Estelle Getty who played Bea Arthur's mother in Golden Girls was actually younger than her on-screen daughter