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TIL: Hugo Bettauer, a prominent Author who vehemently opposed anti-Semitism, was murdered by a Nazi who accused him of, corrupting the youth and communism.

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xVyob TIL, Salt was so precious in ancient Rome, it made up a portion of a soldier's pay, which is where we get the word salary from, (from the Latin for salt, sal).
4XLv6 TIL shortly after George H. W. Bush vomited and fainted at a meeting with the Japanese Prime minister in 1992, a man named James Edward Smith, called CNN posing as the president's physician claiming Bush had died. CNN was within seconds of publishing the story, but stopped the anchor mid sentence.
XRZj TIL John McGroarty, a former Congressman from California, wrote a letter to a constituent in 1934 and said “One of the countless drawbacks of being in Congress is that I am compelled to receive impertinent letters from a jackass like you…Will you please take two running jumps and go to hell.”
QDb9 TIL that a bartender from Oregon won $17.500 in the lottery after a customer tipped him with a lottery ticket. He tried to give it back but the customer let him have the money.
R7wGQ TIL A full-time nurse named Marie Van Brittan Brown and her husband Albert invented the first home security system in 1966. She was inspired to do so because she saw how long it would take the police to arrive in her neighborhood after a crime was reported.