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TIL General Alexander Suvorov, a war criminal responsible for massacre of Praga in 1794, is a historical celebrity commemorated in Switzerland

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R7VQa TIL about steam train driver Wally Oaks who heroically gave his life to stop his train after an accident engulfed the engine in flames. He saved all passengers and was posthumously awarded a George Cross for bravery.
nd4r TIL the main actor of The Gods Must Be Crazy was only paid $300, even though the film made over $60 million
dDlNj TIL that Grigori Perelman, the only mathematician to have solved a millenium prize problem, declined the US $1 million prize because it was not also offered to Richard S. Hamilton, upon whose work Perelman built.
ejRL TIL that NASA has one Hubble Telescope pointed at space. The CIA has 15 of them pointed at Earth.
LQd5Z TIL that wycinanki - a Slavic version of the art of papercutting - became a popular folk craft in Poland in the mid-1800s. It is said to have originated with shepherds, passing time in the fields by cutting designs out of tree bark and leather, which were then used as decorations or given as gifts.