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TIL the woman who created the green bean casserole is in the Inventor's Hall of Fame

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GY7J1 TIL Benito Mussolini’s son Romano Mussolini was a respected Jazz musician who toured internationally with artists including Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Helen Merrill and Chet Baker.
GrYj TIL one of the first books burned by Nazis, Heinrich Heine play, contained a famous line “Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people”
0k5v TIL the first time an aircraft shot down another aircraft, the pilot used his rifle to kill his enemy and the plane crashed
v1DDj TIL about the Cassandra, a Greek mythology character, who could accurately predict the future but was cursed so that no one would believe her.
0nd1 TIL that subscribers with female names to pay online pornography sites are flagged as likely sources of credit-card fraud, because “so many of these charges result in an angry wife or mother demanding a refund for the misuse of her card”.