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TIL El Duce, member of shock-rock band the Mentors, passed a polygraph test after telling sources Courtney Love offered him money to kill Kurt Cobain. Later, he claimed to know who committed the murder; he was found dead two days later. (More links inside)

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8aZGL TIL: In 1989 Bangladesh, a single tornado killed approx. 1,300 people with 12,000 injured. The Daulatpur Saturia tornado was the deadliest tornado in history.
BrQoy TIL that at WWII, Brazil was fighting alongside the Allies in Italy. Three Brazilian soldiers fought against a large German party until running out of o ammo and dying. When the Germans discovered they were only three soldiers, they buried them and added the inscription: "To three Brazilian heroes"
ZpMYR TIL Maximinus Thrax ignited the Crisis of the Third Century when he assassinated Roman Emperor Alexander Severus and seized the throne. A peasant by birth, his misrule led to his assassination and the near collapse of the empire
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16aJ7 TIL the Intermarium, a post WW1 proposal to unite former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth land and territories lying between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic Seas