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TIL Adolf Eichmann, a major organiser of the Holocaust, requested an Israeli wine as part of his last meal.

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e0l46 TIL Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith first met his doppelganger, actor Will Ferrell, at the premier of the film The Ladies Man. After the two finally met, Ferrell looked at Smith and said, completely deadpan, “You are very handsome” before walking away.
X0eYr TIL in 1972, Joanne Pierce Misko, a former nun and teacher, was one of the first two women to become an FBI agent.
R7a81 TIL that Tom Hanks' younger brother Jim sounds so similar to Tom that he often does substitute voice-over work for computer games when Tom doesn't have the time.
698d7 TIL Broccoli only became available in grocery stores in the UK and Ireland in the late 1970s
Een7 TIL Steve jobs tricked HP’s Carly Fiorina into allowing iTunes to becoming the prominent music player on PC’s while effectively banning her own music player until 2006.