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TIL despite being a well-known crime writer, Agatha Christie denied having a 'fascination' with crime: “I've just began writing about it and then one continues, doesn’t one?”

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Yp7J7 TIL Leonardo Da Vinci's mother died of malaria
5Y5aQ TIL of Operation Vegetarian a British WWII project to introduce anthrax into German beef and dairy herds and possibly spread to the human population.
erm4 TIL That more than half of the Western United States is owned by the Federal Government.
9kOQ TIL that two thirds of Denmark’s income used to come from charging people to enter or leave the Baltic sea, those that refused to pay were sunk
R58E6 TIL that Peter Cushing gained worldwide fame for his roles as Baron von Frankenstein and Doctor Van Helsing in 11 Frankenstein and Dracula films prior to his famous role as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars in 1977. Cushing also depicted Dr. Who in Dr Who and the Daleks.