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TIL that the last heir to the former Ottoman Empire, Bayezid Osman, is a 92-year old former librarian living in New York City, who served in the U.S. Army and never had any children

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KORxB TIL more than 618,000 Americans died in the US Civil War. From 1861 to 1865, it is estimated that 620,000 to 750,000 soldiers died
GNW4 TIL Dennis Rader, the “BTK” killer, contacted police and asked “Can I communicate with Floppy and not be traced to computer? Be honest.” Police told him he could, and Rader sent them a disk. Forensic analysts then identified him through metadata from a deleted MS Word file the disk contained.
78Y5p TIL: A pilot resigned from South African Airways after flying for more than 20 years with a fake licence
jNJea TIL Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev traveled .02 seconds into the future
0dwGj TIL In Baby Driver (2017), a security guard was played by Joe Loya, an ex-convict that got jailed for robbing 30 to 40 banks, who worked on the movie as a technical adviser. He also worked closely on the script with director Edgar Wright.