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TIL that there’s a satirical news website in Romania called “Times New Roman”

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16l4r TIL about Lager Sylt and Lager Norderney, the only Nazi Concentration camps ever built on British soil. Both were located on Alderney Island in the English Channel during WWII.
D1wBj TIL: Hugh Hefner published nude pictures of Marilyn Monroe without her permission in the first edition of Playboy magazine. He later purchased the crypt besides her's even though they had never met in life.
xVDjB TIL that Jackie Robinson was a baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the B. Dodgers. In 1997, MLB retired his uniform number 42 across all teams; Evey year in april every player wear his number, 42. Chadwick Boseman portrayed him in thefilm "42"
MeMp0 TIL: Rik Mayall was cast as Peeves in the first Harry Potter film but his scenes were cut because the child actors were always laughing too hard in the background.
l7jAK TIL that Ford Motors released Edsel in the late 1950s. The model was marketed as futuristic and even its release date was dubbed “E Day”. Edsel catastrophically failed, cost Ford over $2.5 billion in 2023 dollars, and quietly shut down 3 years after its release.