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TIL It's illegal in Turkey to insult Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

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XE6xj TIL The space shuttle Enterprise was originally planned to be named Constitution and unveiled on Constitution Day, September 17, 1976, but Star Trek fans convinced President Gerald Ford to name it the Enterprise.
QXOL TIL Gene Wilder felt insulted by Tim Burton’s remake of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”
E1XY7 TIL Henry Hans Ernst Marwede, German pilot who fought against the Allies during WW1, was decorated with the Iron Cross, could not accept the rise of Nazism and went to France, avoided internment by joining the Foreign Legion, and sided with the Allies in WW2.
nvxo TIL the US and Australia are geographically almost the same size
D1GaD TIL in 2014 a man from Oklahoma City killed his stepfather with an "atomic wedgie" - he stretched his stepdad's waistband over his head and around the neck, leaving ligature marks around his neck and blood splatter in several spots in the room.