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TIL the Romans had a December holiday of merrymaking and gift-giving from 500 BC.

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JYByl TIL that when Auschwitz camp commander Rudolf Höss was accused of murdering three and a half million people during a trial, Höss replied, "No. Only two and one half million—the rest died from disease and starvation."
kORe4 TIL during the Vietnam war, many American soldiers stationed in Japan went AWOL and fled to Sweden. Swedish PM Palme was vehemently against the war and promised that he would grant asylum to deserters.
gMBb8 TIL of the 1937 Fox vault fire, in which 40,000 films were destroyed. 75% of all 20th Century Fox films from before 1930 were lost. There are actors for whom not a single copy of a single one of their films survive.
rZN1 TIL Lana Turner’s gangster boyfriend pulled a gun on Sean Connery who responded by twisting the gun out of his hand.
rNEly TIL Cleveland Brown QB Frank Ryan won the NFL title in 1964 and earned his Ph.D. from Rice in Mathematics in 1965. During the late 60's he was a Professor at the Case Institute of Technology, and would teach classes in the morning and then attend Football training in the afternoons.