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TIL Albert Einstein had an affair with a Soviet spy.

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Zp8MR TIL that during filming of a music video for a Nine Inch Nails song the ropes holding a camera, used to film Trent Reznor's "dead" body, snapped. The balloon carrying the camera brought it 200 miles to a farmer's field in Michigan. A farmer gave it to the FBI who investigated it as a snuff film.
J8d4 TIL that Electronic Arts attempted to buy Valve for $1 billion, Newell (company founder) said Valve would prefer to “disintegrate” than ever sell out.
Zjjp TIL that the colour orange was named after the fruit orange, not the other way around.
gMK0X TIL that due to error in communication, the state of Missouri assumed that a man Michael Anderson was in prison, serving his 13-year sentence for armed robbery. They only realised that they had forgotten to take him to jail when they were preparing for him to be released.
NXj48 TIL that of Disney’s top films of all time (Frozen, Little Mermaid, Tangled, etc.), almost all of them are adaptations of Hans Christian Anderson or Brothers Grimm. Disney has archives of unpublished Anderson inspired projects in storage they are prepared to pull from to create future films