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TIL that many European celebrities, including Holywood actors Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, George Segals, were stranded in Czechoslovakia when the Warsaw Pact nations invaded in 1968

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QNbrE TIL it was said that Frederick the Great had a physical disgust of women. He once shocked a dinner party with an offensive rant against "ghastly women you smelled ten miles around". When he saw his wife for the first time in six years, he only told her: "Madame has become more stout" and then left.
QJBM TIL that Karen Carpenter died on the same day that her divorce was supposed to be finalized. At her funeral her husband took off his wedding ring and threw it into her casket.
mxKjM TIL rain on concrete or soil causes pockets of gas that were stored to be released because they get softened, which gives that familiar ‘after-rain’ smell
oRoJW TIL The first Nuclear Accident happened in 1942 in Leipzig Germany while they were working to produce a nuclear pile.
eaaL TIL That the US Government made $51 billion in profits off of student loans last year, which is “more than any Fortune 500 company and about five times the profit of Google.”