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TIL That the US economy didn't fully recover from its 1929 crash until 1954... 25 years later

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8aV1X TIL that former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il secretly studied English on the small island of Malta in the 1970s . His English teacher, Prof. Daniel Massa, said that he used to become irritable when hungry, especially when lessons overstepped their time limit and impinged on his lunch break.
RpX6 TIL celebrated British military surgeon James Barry was found to be a woman on his death
O7nL TIL In 1940 the Soviet Union shot down a civilian Finnish flight traveling from Helsinki to Tallinn. To help preserve peace the Finnish government hid the fact for over a year.
N76RP TIL John McTiernan (director of Die Hard and Predator) was sentenced to a year in prison in 2013, because on the set of his 2002 remake of Rollerball, he was illegally wiretapping producer Charles Roven, with whom he frequently clashed on set over the film's production.
6EjLm TIL if you combine the titles of Breaking Bad S2's 1st, 4th, 9th and 13th episodes you get "Seven Thirty-Seven Down Over ABQ," which alludes to the plane crash at the end of the season. These episodes all include an opening teaser featuring a scorched pink teddy bear floating in Walt's pool.