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TIL in 1978 Cher did a 13 minute One Woman show of West Side Story songs using green screen

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E1Kx TIL In 1941-42, during ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the Nazi’s captured roughly 5.5 million Soviet prisoners of war resulting in one of the most concentrated mass killings in human history
OJ07 TIL that fact, theory, hypothesis, and proof are all distinct scientific concepts and that a theory cannot, under any circumstances, be “upgraded” into a law.
1a5V4 TIL of a Russian game show where the contestant was given a car that was reported stolen to the police and if the contestant evaded the police for 35 minutes, the contestant won the car.
gxDX TIL Paulownia is also known as the “princess tree” because it was once customary to plant a Paulownia tree when a baby girl was born, and then to make it into a dresser as a wedding present when she married.
9YBjB TIL that in 1890, an 8-year-old boy named Henry James Bristow saved his 3-year-old sister's life by tearing off her clothing when she caught on fire. She had knocked over a paraffin lamp on the mantlepiece. Henry was severely burnt in the process and later died of his injuries.