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TIL of Hanns Scharff, a WWII German interrogator who never used torture, later moved to the US and designed the mosaic inside Cinderella’s Castle at Disney World.

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YpbA7 TIL if 117-year-old Japanese supercentenarian Kane Tanaka lives for another 21 days, she will become the third oldest person in recorded history. Today she is in fifth place behind Nabi Tajima and Lucy Hannah who lived 20 and 8 days more than her respectively.
0adv TIL There are 5 so called “Lagrangian Points” wherein the gravitational effects from the Sun and Earth balance out. These points would act as a solar parking space for objects within their limits.
ANLPo TIL After a lawyer complained that Cleveland Browns fans were throwing paper airplanes, their lawyer responded "Attached is a letter that we received on November 19, 1974. I feel that you should be aware that some asshole is signing your name to stupid letters."
Lk5ep TIL that, Alan Turing, widely considered to be the father of modern computing and artificial intelligence, was chemically castrated by the British Government for being a homosexual; following which he took his own life in 1954. He officially remained a criminal until 2013.
ZpEQD TIL that Roman emperor Nero participated in the Olympics in AD 67. He had bribed organizers to postpone the games for a year so he could participate and won every contest in which he was a competitor. After he died a year later, his name was removed from the list of winners