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TIL that Karl Marx had an illegitimate son with his housemaid that he never acknowledged, and Marx's friend Engels agreed to take on paternity for the boy instead.

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7rGNZ TIL that Vaclav Bozdech, a soldier in WWII, found a puppy while on the run and planned to kill it so its barking would not alert the Germans. Unable to bring himself to do so, he took it with him, and the dog later helped find survivors of an air raid and saved Bozdech's life during the Cold War.
yQDOV TIL that the final catalyst of the Thirty Years' War was when two Catholic Counts and their secretary were thrown out of the window ("defenstrated") by the Protestant Count Thurn in Prague. They survived the 3 story (21 m) fall, and the secretary was later given the title of "Baron of Highfall"
GYJ04 TIL that Silverchair's hit 1995 album Frogstomp was released when the band members were only 15 years old.
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E1bwo TIL that the Groom of the Stool (person in charge of helping the English monarch poop) was a coveted position of power and influence due to the close, intimate access to the King/Queen.