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TIL of Radivoke Lajic, who believes he is the target of an extraterrestrial grudge. His house has been hit by meteorites on 6 different occasions, attracting scientists around the world to try to explain this extreme statistical anomaly

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pZm8 TIL that in the 1983 Monopoly championship, a player sold his 3 hotels for 12 houses in order to lessen the number of house tokens that his opponents could use. The move was called a “forced building shortage” and was ruled illegal.
KO41w TIL that there is a town in West Virginia, USA named "Hundred" for centenarian Henry "Old Hundred" Church. He was a British soldier under Cornwallis who was captured and stayed in the area until his death in 1860 at 109. He was born c. 1751 and was about 25 when the DOI was signed.
DQObD TIL George Washington prevented a military coup over unpaid back wages by putting on a pair of glasses to read a letter from Congress, explaining he was "almost blind in the service of my country.” Moved to tears, his officers compromised.
GYEa7 TIL during filming of The Toast of New Orleans, Mario Lanza kept trying to french kiss Kathryn Grayson which was made even worse by his garlic breath. Costume designer Helen Rose sewed brass into Grayson's gloves, so that anytime Lanza tried to kiss her, she hit him with the brass-filled glove.
eDR5 TIL that after WWII the CIA recruited Nazi war criminals, who had worked on mind control/brainwashing techniques in Germany, to assist them with their own mind control experiments on unwitting US citizens.