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TIL that Jennifer Pan, who hired hit men to murder her overbearing and strict parents, would text with her boyfriend using phonetic baby talk. Her nickname for him, Mr. Bubbles, was rendered “Mr. Bawbos” in their messages.

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DNve TIL that when Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov visited the US, he developed a great liking for Coca-Cola, but he couldn’t be seen drinking it in public as it was a symbol of capitalism. To get around this, he had a special variant of transparent coke made to resemble vodka, which was more acceptable.
vARj TIL Tesla believed that women would become the dominant sex in the future.
aYYN TIL Henry Ford, a frequent insomniac, had “I’ll sleep well tonight” as his final words
xAWw TIL the Oscar nominated documentary “Liberators” narrated by Denzel Washington, interviewing African American soldiers who liberated Buchenwald concentration camp was pulled by PBS when an investigation showed no African American GI’s played a role in the liberation of Buchenwald.
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