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TIL in 1913 Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito and Freud all lived in Vienna

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Akl7 TIL that in the early 90s Sudanese NBA player Manute Bol tried to warn the US Congress and the Pentagon about the threats of Osama bin Laden. His worries were “dismissed”
ANP8B TIL of the Association of Persecutees of the Nazi Regime which was accused of spying for the west in East Germany and of being a communist front organization in West Germany.
kJ1wW TIL that after Roman consul Publius Claudius Pulcher lost a major battle against the Carthaginians, his sister, Claudia, became infamous when, obstructed in a street blocked by poorer citizens, she wished aloud that her brother would lose another battle so as to thin the crowd.
M1B7 TIL a comedian died of a heart attack in front of millions of viewers on live tv and people thought it was all a part of the act.
ZWPo TIL Cliché is an onomatopoeia of the noise made by a printing press when something is printed over and over again, or in other words “Stereotyped”