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TIL Buddy Holly asked out his wife María Elena Holly the first time they met and proposed to her on said date.

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W7NE8 TIL: There Are Only 25 Blimps on Earth
BDBy TIL that between 1941-1944, Turkish diplomats saved thousands of Jews by issuing them Turkish passports and sometimes pulling them off trains headed for the death camps. Among these diplomats was Necdet Kent, whose son Muhtar Kent, is the current chairman and former chief executive of Coca-Cola.
wYJ8 TIL That as a peasant of the feudal age you had no right to mill you own grain. Millwrights would come to your house and break your milling equipment to enforce their monopoly. This is the reason many quern-stones are found in broken condition.
w4PW TIL that the Sun loses around 4 million tons of mass per second due to fusion
XPP6 TIL in LOTR Elrond and Aragorn were distantly related through Elrond’s brother, Elros