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TIL Josef Stalin’s granddaughter lives in Portland, OR

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OoXwL TIL about the title Nebraska Admiral. The title, which officially grants control of all of the landlocked state's "Navy officers, seamen, tadpoles and goldfish" to its recipients has been awarded to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr. and Queen Elizabeth II. among others.
aw9kL TIL that on Christmas day in 1929 Charlie Lawson, in what is called the Christmas Massacre, murdered his wife and six of his seven children before killing himself. Prior to the murders he took his family into town for one last holiday photo.
1aQWr TIL that it was once estimated that Vanna White averages over 600 claps per episode of "Wheel of Fortune."
9Q4X TIL that the U.S. accidentally dropped four hydrogen bombs on Spain in 1966
l6d5 TIL “"No president has ever used the [Emergency Alert System] system or its technical predecessors in the last 50 years, despite the Soviet missile crisis, a presidential assassination, the Oklahoma City bombing, major earthquakes and three recent high-alert terrorist warnings…”