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TIL: Charlie Chaplin’s grandaughter is Oona Chaplin, famous for playing Rob Stark’s pregnant wife that is slaughtered in the Red Wedding on Game of Thrones.

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D1W1D TIL that between WW1 & WW2 the USA had a war plan in place for invading Canada in fears the British Empire would try to invade the USA through their colonies. War plan red was even updated to authorise the use of chemical weapons against Canadian citizens.
epD15 TIL drag queen and actor Divine was an inspiration for Ursula in Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'
G6V4 TIL 90% of Paraguayans speak Guarani, a native American Indian language.
l7517 TIL France detonated its 1st atomic bomb, the Blue Jerboa, on Feb. 13, 1960 in Saharan Algeria. This was the 1st of 17 nuclear weapons detonations that occurred in the area between 1960 & 1966. The Blue Jerboa was 3 times more powerful than the atomic bomb the US dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.
d8l5Q TIL In 1867, thousands of formerly enslaved African Americans in New Orleans protested and achieved desegregation of the city's streetcars, nearly 90 years before the bus boycotts in Montgomery.