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TIL that the state of Washington could have been named Columbia, but was instead named Washington in order to avoid confusion with the District of Columbia

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R5Mpa TIL that Klaus Barbie, also known as The Butcher of Lyon, was a Nazi officer during World War II. After the war, United States intelligence services, aided his escape to Bolivia, where he advised the regime on how to repress opposition through torture.
oRxp8 TIL Tucker Carlson's mother left him only $1 because she couldn't stand him
xo05 TIL:Russians consider beer a soft drink (The law is only now changing)
16nWd TIL Physicist JJ Thompson, famous for discovering the electron, won the Nobel Prize in 1906. SEVEN of his students later won Nobel prizes, and this list should probably include his own son who also won the award.
RLJQ TIL that ‘Boyhood’, the film shot over the course of 12 years, only had a total of 39 days of filming.