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TIL Russians call WWII "The Great Patriotic War"

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J1bNB TIL Christopher Lee's mother was an Italian Countess.
Jxxm TIL that Woodrow Wilson signed into law “The Seditions Act of 1918” making it illegal to speak out against the Government with imprisonment terms of 5-20 years
WwEN TIL there is a common amoeba found in warm bodies of freshwater, and if insufflated (snorted) deeply into your sinus cavity, will begin to eat your optical nerve, move to your brain and eat that as well. Oh, and it has a fatality rate higher then the Ebola virus and the Bubonic plague.
VB4GQ TIL about Stan Latkin, who lived for 555 days without a heart while awaiting a transplant.
neQO7 TIL sometimes Spitfires had to taxi to the take-off position with a person sat on the tail. In 1945 a pilot forgot about this and took-off with mechanic Margaret Horton clinging on the tail. The pilot realized that his aircraft wasn't handling correctly and landed with Miss Horton still on the tail