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NJYP TIL Gene Wilder became interested in acting at age 8 when his mother was diagnosed with rheumatic fever and the doctor told him to “try and make her laugh”
VbWD TIL when negotiating with Americans in the 1850’s, the Japanese leader inflated his title from Shogun (meaning “general of the army”) to Taikun (meaning “great prince/lord”). The title then entered the English language as “Tycoon,” and was adopted as a nickname for Abraham Lincoln by his staff
ANapd TIL: Einstein designed an unworkable wing airfoil based on a flawed knowledge of how wings work
Jo68 TIL a man named Khattab led several successful guerrilla attacks against Russian forces in the Chechen wars. After the war, he survived multiple assassination attempts by Russian secret service, including one where he was shot with a sniper rifle. Eventually he died to a letter filed with poison.
m1J0P TIL about the massacre of Huta Pieniacka where soldiers of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS brutally murdered more than a thousand ethnic Poles