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TIL about Jacques Bergier, a jewish white russian with an eidetic memory, emigrant in France, became a genius in many disciplines and science-fiction editor, resistant and prisoner at Mauthausen camp during WW2, his last words were "I am not a legend".

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y1gJ TIL in 1913 a man was charged for threatening to kill his wife and newborn son with a knife. The mother remarried and the boy changed his name to that of his step-father. That boy went on to become the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford.
gr9eW TIL The 10,000 ton London Bridge was dismantled and rebuilt in Lake Havasu, Arizona
wLbrJ TIL The ability to count is universal in the animal kingdom. Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. Domesticated dogs, though, not so much.
apNo TIL that the only infixes in the English language are obscenities like fuckin’, as in “Un-fuckin’-believable”
xVOyg TIL About the diving horses of Atlantic City. From the mid 1880's until 1978! the (mostly female) riders would ride their horse up a ramp some 60 ft high to plummet into a small pool.