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TIL: The place where Hitler started the Nazi party is now an Apple shop

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apkL TIL that Olivia Wilde’’s actual name is Olivia Cockburn. She changed her name professionally to make it sound pleasant, and chose ‘Wilde’ as a tribute to Oscar Wilde.
awPeL TIL that when filming Zulu (1964) in South Africa, when the authorities warned the British crew that interracial sex was punishable by whipping, the producer responded by asking "if he could have the lashes while doing it".
yD7p TIL Retta’s (Dona Meagle from Parks and Recreation) aunt, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, is the President of Liberia; the first female head of state in Africa.
d8QoB TIL Forty stones outline the original boundary of Washington DC, many of which are forgotten and neglected. This 10-sq mile area was to be the new capital of the United States, proposed by George Washington and assisted in its layout by a free-African American astronomer, Benjamin Banneker, in 1789
16M9V TIL of the submarine USS Tang. It was hit when it's own torpedo boomeranged. 89 crew with 29 trapped. 13 made it out through a hatch but only 9 made to the surface where they were picked up by the Japanese and taken to a POW camp. They survived the war.