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TIL Heath Ledger was an accomplished chess player and won Western Australia’s junior chess championship, aged 10

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LQjGm TIL that Max Born, one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, is the grandfather of Olivia Newton-John
WrmL TIL A group of writers purposely wrote a terrible novel full of nothing but sex scenes to prove how vulgar American literary culture had become. It became a bestseller.
9Yl8G TIL of St. Maria Skobtsova, an ex-revolutionary, twice married, smoking nun that helped forge baptismal certificates for Parisian Jews; she was discovered by the Gestapo, and died at Ravensbruck on Holy Saturday, 1945.
ND4M TIL that in 2007, a 75 year old woman smashed up a Comcast office with a hammer because she was fed up with their poor customer service
7g8r TIL The Molotov bread basket was a high-explosive incendiary bomb used on Finland that was named after Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, after he claimed Russia was not dropping bombs on Finland, but merely airlifting food to starving Finns.