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TIL that Croatia's last king never visited his kingdom.

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0wDXN TIL: In 1983’s Trading Places, the Dukes are squeezed by a margin call that came about due to short selling based on insider information. While legal at the time, the “Eddie Murphy Rule” finally made this illegal in 2010.
7rp8Z TIL Ed McMahon (Johnny Carson's sidekick) was a carrier certified Marine F4U Corsair instructor pilot during WWII and an artillery spotter during the Korean War. He flew a total of 85 combat missions. After the war, he stayed with the Marines as a reserve officer, retiring in 1966 as a colonel.
loWoA TIL: Charlie Chaplin was never an American citizen and was essentially exiled. During the McCarthy era, the FBI put him under surveillance, and a Mississippi congressman called for his deportation. The U.S. government then revoked his re-entry permit in 1952 as he traveled to England on vacation.
v1ePj TIL that there has been a boat/barge trapped in the rapids above Niagara Falls for over 100 years
7LQZ TIL no one knows what Algeria’s intelligence chief Mohamed Mediène, reportedly the most powerful man in the country, looks like - no clear public photo of him exists