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TIL Ripley’s Believe It or Not was researched by a man who spent ten hours a day, six days a week in the New York Public Library for 52 years, researching more than 350,000 books during his decades of work for Believe it or Not.

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L5Dr TIL in 1948, the United States signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as part of being in the UN. Article 12 says “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy…or correspondence. Everyone has the right to the protection…against such interference or attacks.”
wLBXW TIL The Irish word for spam email is turscar. Originally, the word was used to refer to dead seaweed that was washed up on the tide.
XEYej Today I learned that Russia hid cities to the world during the Soviet era
VMRWB TIL Robert Wagner is a person of interest in actress Natalie Wood's 1981 drowning death. The captain of the boat admitted that he lied to police & that Wood & Wagner had argued the night she drowned & that Wagner had prevented the captain from turning on the search lights & contacting authorities.
oRVlr TIL the US government allowed a Hungarian priest to live in the US embassy in Budapest from 1956 to 1971, where he was fully protected from the Red Army who wanted his head. He never left the building once in 15 years.