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TIL Pyotr Tchaikovsky's family original last name was Chaika (Seagull) and it was of a distinguished Ukrainian Cossack background. Tchaikovsky wrote more than 30 compositions while in Ukraine, because - "I found a feeling of peace in my soul, which I couldn't find in Moscow and St Petersburg"

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Eld TIL in the 60’s Nazi themed pornographic comics were hugely popular in Israel. Often read by the children of Holocoust survivors, the books told perverse tales of captured American or British pilots being abused by sadistic female SS officers outfitted with whips and boots
K0A6 TIL that the speculated inventor of Tiramisu “does not have the time or the energy” to prove it, and claims it is “just a desert”. He currently runs a small family restaurant in Little Italy, Baltimore. MD
e0lDD TIL a woman was sentenced to life in prison for poisoning her child to death with antifreeze. She gave birth to a second child while in prison, who was given to foster care. But he became sick with the same symptoms, indicating a genetic metabolic disorder, not poisoning. She was later released.
WkMe4 TIL Clark Gregg (Agent Coulson) is a real-life Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt and probably the toughest member of the MCU in the real world
WxO8 TIL the U.S. Army created a giant four-legged robot in 1969. Called the “walking truck,” it could lift a jeep and walk 5 MPH, but it never saw field use because the operator - who controlled each limb with one of his own - would become exhausted after just 15 minutes.