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TIL Einstein was candid to his wife Elsa about his extramarital affairs. In a letter to his wife, Einstein said women were chasing him, showering him with unwanted attention

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mQep TIL of Heinz Heydrich, the younger brother of Reinhard Heydrich (the architect of the Holocaust), who helped Jews escape Germany by forging identity documents
x6Nnk TIL about the Nichoria bone. A fossilized thigh bone belonging to an immense extinct mammal and found by the ancient Greeks. Believing the bone belonged to a giant, the Greeks venerated it. Thought to be long lost, it was rediscovered in Duluth, Minnesota.
XZ8E TIL Terry Jones of Monty Python purchased the “Flying Circus” tapes mere weeks before the BBC was scheduled to wipe them in the 1970’s along with countless other TV shows now lost.
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