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TIL The US show COPS filmed one episode in Soviet Russia

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xVB55 TIL Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II Tryphon (an ancestor of Cleopatra) was so despised after enacting a political purge that he had the nickname 'Physcon,' meaning 'Fatty'
l7pDG TIL The High Treason Incident was a socialist-anarchist plot to assassinate the Japanese Emperor in 1910
YRQd TIL that despite working for the BBC as a broadcaster and dying as recently as 1950, there are no known recordings of George Orwell’s voice.
M7kW7 TIL about Connie Converse, an American singer-songwriter, active in New York City in the 1950s. Her work is among the earliest known recordings in the singer-songwriter genre of music. In 1974 Converse wrote letters to family, left her home and was never heard from again. Her fate remains unknown.
nW8bd TIL that the first successful blood transfusion was done in 1628 by Richard Lower between dogs. Then in 1818, James Blundell performed the first successful transfusion of human blood to a patient.