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TIL The only daughter of Joseph Stalin lived in a small Wisconsin town until her death in 2011

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6arl TIL of the “Punt gun” An eleven foot rifle meant for killing roughly 50 birds in one shot, which was eventually banned due to it decimating wild bird numbers.
0eNR TIL 78-year-old Dashrath Manjhi in India spent 22 years carving a 1km road through rocky hills, using only a hammer and chisel, to allow people of his isolated village easy access to the nearest town doctor.
E19Xo TIL Charles Darwin's grandad, Erasmus Darwin, conceived a rocket engine in 1779. It used oxygen and hydrogen for fuel, the same fuels NASA's rockets use today, 200+ years later.
PYXlw TIL The woman killed in the Gare Montparnasse accident was filling in for her husband at his newspaper stand
gvGX TIL the Oxford English Dictionary cites The Beastie Boys as being responsible for coining the term “mullet” in 1994 to refer to the popular 1980s hairstyle.