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TIL that two successive attempts by the newly-formed FBI to catch Public Enemy #1 John Dillenger resulted in him and his gang getting away but their girlfriends being arrested, leading to mockery of the agency's bungling with the slogan, "We may not get our man, but we always get his woman."

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a9dJ TIL A survivor of Auschwitz is looking for his missing twin on Facebook.
e0kAg TIL that all astronauts going to the International Space Station are required to learn Russian, which can take up to 1100 class hours for English language speakers
1gy8 TIL that in addition to saving a passenger train of people at the expense of his own life, earlier in his career Casey Jones saved the life of a young girl by standing on the moving train’s cow-catcher and picking the girl up off the track
N7eQ6 TIL there is actually a rhino species still covered in body hair, the Sumatran Rhinoceros which is also the last surviving member of the genus Dicerorhinus
wL9jY TIL that the 1982 hit "Gloria" by Laura Branigan was originally an Italian hit of the same name, written and performed in 1979 by Umberto Tozzi.