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TIL about the Warsaw ghetto uprising, where polish jews made a suicidal last stamd against the German army in opposition to being deported

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9X0G TIL that Gene Wilder personally created the Willy Wonka introduction scene where he fakes being crippled.
QJxAL TIL "Jazz on bones" or "Ribs" were bootleg vinyl recordings made from old x-rays with holes burned in the middle from cigarettes. In the 50's and 60's they were a black market method for smuggling banned music into the Soviet Union such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Elvis.
rR4ro TIL Chrysler built 55 turbine-powered cars from 1963-1964. It could run on any fuel that could burn with oxygen, including perfume and tequila, and produced 130 horsepower. Only nine still exist.
EVvW TIL that due to having similar names, the staff of the Slovak and Slovenian embassies meet at least once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mail
wa4Y TIL that all of the notebooks in John Doe’s possession from the film ‘Se7en’ were actually filled to the brim with dark, nonsensical musings. Several members of the art department spent several weeks and $15,000 on them, and their actual contents were only featured during the opening credits.