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TIL that director Fritz Lang had a meeting with Goebbels

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dPm7 TIL that Elon Musk was ousted as CEO of PayPal because he insisted on switching from Unix based infrastructure to Windows
1XPO TIL James Harrison aka The Man With the Golden Arm started donating blood regularly after age 18 and scientists found that his blood contains Rh (D) immune globulin or anti-D, which helps prevent fetuses who have Rhesus Disease. He has made over 1000 blood donations and saved 2,000,000 babies.
v80B TIL in 1968, a cash-laden bank vehicle was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved
LkYbP TIL that the Soviets were more instrumental to Japan's surrender than the Nuclear fucking Bomb and we probably didn't have to drop it.
R54D8 Til Marcus Licinius Crassus, often called the richest man in Rome in time of Julius Ceasar, created first ever Roman fire brigade. However the brigade wouldn't put out the fire until the owner would sell the property in question to Crassus for miserable price.