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TIL Anni-Fryd Lyngstad, one of the lead singers of the band ABBA, was a child of a Nazi soldier during the occupation of Norway as part of Nazi breeding experiments

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pYd9O TIL Jimmy Carter holds multiple presidential records, including being the longest-living and longest-retired president in US history. He also became the first president to reach the age of 95 and to have lived 40 years after his inauguration.
JrK4 TIL In Los Angeles you can serve a jail sentence in a much nicer “pay-to-serve” jails for $100. These allow day release for employment, food delivery, and better visiting conditions. Those that can’t pay as much clean the jail.
jNoWN TIL In parts if the US you not have to be present for the ceremony in order to get married. It is called marriage by proxy.
oByJW TIL Mount Rushmore because it’s carved in solid granite and within a stable ecological place may last 100,000-200,000 years after the last human on earth (Brin, 2015, 1:22).
8Db4 TIL: On the map for the Animaniacs song “Yakko’s World” where he names every country, Tibet does not appear on the map. But when he names it and points to where it would be in China, it lights up (skip to 1:15 to see it)