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TIL that the youngest son of Benito Mussolini (Italian Dictator) is a Jazz Musician

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7r9lp TIL studies have determined that the closing of the nuclear power plants in Japan has actually caused more deaths than the Fukushima accident itself.
9YR4Q TIL that in 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pitched a mystery story to an author, about a man trapped in a boring life, who dreams of running off with $5 million and starting over. 6 top mystery writers wrote a chapter each, and the book was published, and even turned into a movie in 1936
nJ4G TIL that there were only two black combat pilots in the First World War. Eugene Bullard was an African-American who served with the French Air Force and Ahmet Ali Çelikten, an Arab-African who flew with the Ottoman Air Force… placing them both on opposite sides of the conflict.
kJgEd TIL Martin Scorsese is a huge admirer of Polish cinema from the 50's and 60's and often shows his favorite classic Polish films to actors and even executives before working with them. Scorsese has an honorary doctorate from a Polish university and made a list of his 21 favorite Polish movies.
6E1WQ TIL that Scientists have decoded the meaning of more than 1,500 honey bee "waggle dances," which the insects use to communicate information about food sources.