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TIL that Chuck Palahniuk announced that he would be writing a graphic novel sequel to ‘Fight Club’, told from Tyler Durden’s perspective.

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D1NXJ TILL during the Night of the Long Knives, the Nazis accidentally killed a music critic called Willi Schmid, when their intended target had been someone with a similar surname. A few days after his death, Rudolf Hess visited Willi’s widow and apologised for the mistake, and offered her a pension.
PYwrG TIL Thailand declared war on USA on 25 January 1942, but the Thai ambassador to USA, Seni Pramoj, refused to deliver the declaration of war. Instead he started organizing a resistance movement against Japan, the Free Thai Movement.
YpNkx TIL Vitali Kaloyev, a Russian Architect who lost his family when the airliner they were flying in collided mid air with a cargo plane. He stalked and later murdered an air traffic controller he blamed for the incident.
Y7ZQA TIL BMW Paired up with Hans Zimmer to design an artificial sound for their electric cars acceleration.
BrngK TIL that the largest handwritten family tree is in India and can date back upto 900 years old.