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TIL that Kim Jong-Il’s birth name is Yuri Irsenovich

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DDpj TIL eight of the July 20th, 1944 conspirators to assassinate Hitler were punished so severely, that they were slowly strangled with piano wire and revived multiple times only to be killed again. And all of this was filmed for Hitler to personally view at his leisure.
4kJla TIL seals (of which there are 34 extant species) have weasels, skunks, raccoons and red pandas as their closest loving relatives.
E1pYd TIL, Midnight Oil vocalist Peter Garrett is the uncle of Maude Garrett, the former co-host of the TV show Sarvo on Australia's version of Nickelodeon.
E1W5o TIL Winston Churchill gave his painting of the-Tower-of-Koutoubia-Mosque as a gift to President Roosevelt. It is now owned by the actor Bradd Pitt who purchased it for a world-record sum.
VM1Zk TIL: In the 1980's, A&W tried to sell a third pounder burger to rival McDonald's quarter pounder, but nobody wanted to buy it because the majority of people thought they were getting less meat.