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TIL that Tesla became a gambling addict, lost all his tuition money, dropped out of school and suffered a nervous breakdown.

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7rJb7 TIL that The Monuments Men actually aimed to bring all German artwork back the United States, until the German people protested.
165OP TIL about the Nogun-Ri Massacre where 300 civilian men, women and children were killed by the US Army via machine guns, artillery and air raids/strafing. They were unarmed and merely seeking refuge under a bridge.
wLJ58 TIL economic and social ties between NYC and the secessionist South were so strong that on January 6, 1861, the Mayor of New York, Fernando Wood called for city to secede from the Union in support of the "Confederacy of which she was the proud Empire City"
epKkg TIL that there is a special punctuation mark called the percontation point that can be used at the end of a sentence to indicate that the question is rhetorical. e.g. "Did you know about this؟"
rR0Je TIL that Emilio Estevez is four years older than Charlie Sheen (aka Carlos Irwin Estevez)