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TIL that actress Tilda Swinton comes from an ancient Anglo-Scots family that can trace its lineage to the Middle Ages, & is one of only three British families that can trace their unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest

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OoJk6 TIL that Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber), Ramzi Yousef (the 1993 World Trade Center bomber), and Timothy McVeigh (the Oklahoma City bomber), all became friends in prison, and regularly discussed religion and politics until McVeigh's execution.
Er8d TIL The president of France said “the Germans … were actually victims of Nazi rule” and that “They were led into a war which was not theirs and which would have never been theirs.”
oLy8 TIL: A half-Jewish man was used in Nazi recruitment posters and dubbed as “The Ideal German Soldier”, before being kicked out for being too Jewish.
oQPL TIL in 1512, a horribly deformed baby was born in the city of Ravenna, and then was starved to death by order of the Pope
4PWJ TIL that “to train each Apache pilot from scratch cost £3 million. It took six months just to learn how to fly it, another six to know how to fight in it, and a final six to be passed combat ready. And that was if you were already a fully qualified, combat-trained army helicopter pilot.”