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TIL of Alfred Nakache, a Jewish-French swimmer who held the 200m men’s breaststroke record, was deported to Auschwitz where his wife and daughter were murdered, yet came back to compete in the 1948 London Olympics

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4Ne5 TIL Potato chips were invented in 1853 when a cook got fed up with a customer sending his fried potatoes back to the kitchen for being too soggy. To spite the customer, he sliced the potato as thin as he could, deep fried them to hell, and dumped piles of salt on them. They were instantly loved.
Oo5e TIL that more intelligent people, statistically, are more likely to use psychoactive substances such as marijuana or cocaine than less intelligent people
69RBl TIL that Emma Gibson, conceived in 1992 and frozen as an embryo, was born in 2017.
e0me6 TIL That General Eisenhower wrote a personal letter of rebuke in case the D-day landings failed, in which he accepted full responsibility for the failure. He refused to blame the troops at all and commended them for their valour, intending to dedicate the letter to them if the landings failed.
QYLM TIL: In 2015, Blake Shelton called fans of classic country music “old farts” and “jackasses”. Later that year, Willie Nelson named his tour the “Old Farts and Jackasses Tour”.