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TIL of Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine, two rival criminal underworld bosses in Sydney in the 1930s, who resorted to using newspaper headlines as weapons in their feud

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p8xNO TIL that some 15,000 Nigerian children were branded as witches and most ended up abandoned and living on the streets.
0mRy TIL Stalin’s body double was teased in school because of the resemblance with Stalin
vPmgK TIL the “Subway smell” emanating from Subway restaurants is due to the specific combination of chemicals released from baking bread and cookies, Italian herbs, vinegar, and cheese, and it can be replicated at home.
J1bAl TIL in 1951, Clint Eastwood was on a military plane when its oxygen, navigation, and communications systems failed. As the fuel ran out, they crashed into the ocean off Point Reyes. Eastwood and the pilot survived, rowing through the dark on a life raft to a lighthouse, and were rescued.
oX6o TIL that an attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the world’s most expensive cocktail was thwarted when a customer dropped and broke the bottle of Cognac that was worth $77,000