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TIL that in 1913 Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Josip Broz Tito and Sigmund Freud were all living in Vienna.

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7LGL TIL that the term “cold war” first appeared in a 1945 essay by the English writer George Orwell called “You and the Atomic Bomb.”
9YN7Q TIL of the mining town “Rough and Ready” which for 88 days in 1850 seceded from the union becoming “the Great Republic of Rough and Ready”
kJ8G1 TIL babies can’t be born in space yet.
awQwA TIL: Singer-songwriter James Blunt was a former reconnaissance officer in the Life Guards regiment of the British Army and served under NATO during the 1999 Kosovo War. He was also a pallbearer at the funeral of Queen Mother.
QJkEk TIL Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian army officer who collaborated with Nazi Germany during the occupation of Norway, eventually established his name as a synonym for "traitor" in Norwegian and English.