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TIL that Franklin Roosevelt probably had an affair with Princess Martha of Norway. Invited to USA during WW2, she stayed at the White House and traveled with FDR. The president's son and others believed that Martha was Roosevelt's "last love".

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rRMKW TIL that 80,000 people or 5% of the population of Bali was executed during the massacres of suspected communists in Indonesia in 1965-66, many on those white sand beaches.
ZmNB TIL a 57yo Japanese man has been learning to SCUBA dive specifically so he can look for his wife’s remains after she was presumably swept away during the 2011 tsunami. He says her last email to him was “… I want to go home”, and he is determined to make that happen.
JYNMj TIL Beer cans used to be 40% thicker and way stronger, which is why we see people crushing beer cans as a display of strength in older movies
E6Jw TIL the original Doom outsold the Windows OS. Id was only 12 employees strong at the time.
b60Aa TIL about Toto Koopman, a Dutch-Indonesian model who worked as a spy for the Dutch Resistance in WWII, escaped imprisonment several times, pretended to be a nurse and forged papers to rescue women from the gas chamber and later became an archaeologist as well as found an influential art gallery.