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TIL that 19 June is the anniversary of the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the first U.S. civilians to be sentenced to death for espionage.

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69e0Y TIL that nearly everyone mispronounces Chico Marx' first name (one of the famous Marx Brothers) as "Cheek-Oh" when it's actually pronounced "Chick-Oh". He earned the nickname as the brother who was always chasing after the "chicks" (slang for girls).
AaVd TIL time-travel, faster-than-light travel and “sliding between parallel worlds” are theoretically possible if there are multiple time dimensions.
QJgka TIL the Beatles asked Stanley Kubrick to direct Lord of the Rings with them starring in it. John Lennon wanted to play Gollum, Paul McCartney Frodo, Ringo Starr Sam, and Harrison Gandalf. Kubrick turned them down, and Tolkien didn’t like the idea of a Beatles adaptation of his work
p8yV4 TIL Tossing and turning in bed one night in 1934, twenty year old Jerry Siegel came up with the idea of Superman. He teamed up with his friend Joe Shuster and it took them six years to find a publisher for their comics
NXxXN TIL that McMurdo Station, the largest research community in Antarctica, is on an actively volcanic island