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TIL that Nelson Rockefeller, once Vice President of the United States, died at age 70 of a heart attack rumoured to be caused during sex with his 25 year old assistant. The New York Magazine quipped: "Nelson thought he was coming, but he was going".

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N75m6 TIL after successfully winning the online poll to name the ISS module 'Colbert' after Stephen Colbert, NASA went with the eighth most popular name 'Tranquility'. To honor his winning, they named the new station treadmill Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT).
0dw0L TIL that in 1945, Lycoming built the largest piston aircraft engine ever - with 36 cylinders, 127 liters of displacement and 5,000 hp.
BroQe TIL Dolly Parton wrote "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You" in the same day.
4XdRb TIL that the man that was not saluting to Hitler in the famous photograph was August Landmesser. After imprisonment, a failed attempt of fleeing to Denmark with his family, his Jewish wife dying in the Holocaust, he was drafted into a penal battalion where he was killed in action.
Re71 TIL Hitler had a relative called “Paddy Hitler” who ended up joining the US Navy, where, along with all recruits, he had to fill out a form listing any relatives who might be fighting for the enemy.