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TIL the “Nation” referred to by the National Hockey League (NHL) is Canada

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69GZw TIL Mad Money host and stock market huckster Jim Cramer was a member of the Spartacist League (communists) in college
GpN7 TIL in the 19th Century the German-Jewish poet Heine once wrote that “Where one burns books, there one will also burn people.” His works were later burned under Hitler’s rule.
OmAa TIL Indiana Jones may have been inspired by American political scientist William Montgomery McGovern, who by age 30 had already explored the Amazon and braved uncharted regions of the Himalayas, survived revolution in Mexico, studied at Oxford and become a Buddhist priest in a Japanese monastery.
R5Dw4 TIL that 2001: A Space Odyssey was realised a year before Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon
618J TIL that on September 11th 1973, US-backed General Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected leader of Chile, Salvadore Allende. Pinochet ordered an air strike on the Presidential Palace, labor activists and famous folk guitarists were rounded up for torture, disappeared, and killed.