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TIL Josef Stalin’s granddaughter lives in Portland, OR

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165Xr TIL of Hallucigenia, a spined and clawed yet worm-like creature so named for its “bizarre, dream-like quality.” Its extant relatives are similarly unique and include nigh-indestructible tardigrades and slime-slinging velvet worms.
ReP9 TIL the ad revenue made from the “charlie bit my finger” youtube video was enough for the family to buy a new house
d8JnB TIL in 1968, four submarines sunk belonging to Russia, the USA, France and Israel, with no clear and obvious cause for the sinkings.
p8erp TIL During WWII chemists dissolved in acid large Nobel Prize medals with the engraved names of Max von Laue and James Franck to hide them from Germans. Solution of black liquid in two unmarked jars sat on a laboratory shelf. After the war the Nobel Foundation recast them and returned to the owners.
mnNM TIL The largest consumer of kale before the 2013 craze was Pizza Hut.The thing is, Pizza Hut used it as decoration for their salad bars.They didn’t even feed it to people.