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TIL In Switzerland, You Can Be Denied Citizenship for "Being Too Annoying".

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N70lQ TIL that Manfred "The Red Baron" von Richthoven was so respected that after shooting him down in 1918, the allies gave him a full military funeral with wreaths, a 25-man firing party, a dozen reporters and a cinematographer present.
ADLDa TIL Tomomasa Nakagawa, a former doctor sentenced to death in 2011 for his involvement in VX and sarin attacks, including the 1995 sarin attack on Tokyo’s subway system, determined that Kim Jong Nam was attacked with VX before the announcement from Malaysian authorities.
R5KX9 TIL Gene Roddenberry's only appearance in Star Trek was as a ship's chef who told Captain Kirk that the turkey-shaped meatloaf in the galley ovens had turned into real turkeys.
J1mEV TIL that British actor Charles Dance (Tywin Lannister) would apologize to his co-star Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister) while filming their scenes because of the awful behavior of his character; Dinklage was (according to Dance) the "most adorable man"
E1OMp TIL That Bob Beamon had a lifelong goal of being the first athlete to ever pass 28 feet in a long jump. After the official measurement coming out to 29 feet and 2.5 inches in the 1968 Olympics, he became so full of emotion that his muscles literally began to collapse.