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TIL composer Rudolph Karel composed operas by writing on toilet paper while imprisoned during WWII

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yVMw TIL that the pilot of the only enemy aircraft to ever bomb the lower 48 was invited back to the town he tried to burn and made an honorary citizen.
Z8EnQ TIL During the Cold War, Chairman Mao brought up the idea China could give the US 10 million of its female citizens as a gift. Henry Kissinger replied by calling the idea a "novel proposition."
jgRE TIL the Azara’s owl monkey is an “unusually faithful” species. Through 18 years of research and testing, they have been found to be both socially monogamous as well as genetically. 35 offspring born to 17 pairs showed zero cheating for both sexes!
ZpP9G TIL in the year 1913, Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Tito, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Stalin all lived in the city of Vienna.
ADX0o TIL that a German carpenter named Georg Elser attempted to assassinate Hitler in November 1939, only one month into WWII. His bomb, hidden at a speech venue, went off successfully but failed to kill Hitler, who had finished his speech and left early.