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TIL: Dodi Fayed, who was dating Princess Diana and died in the same crash, was cousins with Jamal Khashoggi the journalist who was murdered

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5V7xn TIL that Pantone created a special hue called "Love symbol #2" as a tribute to Prince and his Yamaha purple piano.
v1raR TIL of the "Yankee Samurai," Japanese-American translators who served during WW2 with the US Army's Military Intelligence Service. They deployed to numerous battles, and one general even credited them with "[shortening] the Pacific War by two years and [saving]...a million American lives.”
KOB5w TIL after the first atomic bomb was detonated in New Mexico in 1945, a car full of ranchers happened to witnesses it, with one asking what happened, as it was so bright. She was blind.
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