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TIL that Tila Tequila is a Nazi sympathizer

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w6EW TIL that the Apollo astronauts were denied life insurance. So before each mission, they would autograph hundreds of pictures that their families could sell in case they died.
jN74j TIL that 6 other nation's flags can be cropped out of Norway's flag
mxW0o TIL about the Tsar Bomba, a Soviet nuclear bomb that was deemed too powerful to use. It was 1,500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined and 10 times more powerful than all the munitions expended during WW2.
M7ja7 TIL in the US, the top marginal tax rate reached its peak of 94% in 1944 for taxable incomes exceeding $200,000 (equivalent to approximately $2.5 million today). This rate remained above 70% until the 70s
QJDNd TIL that in 1979, a South Korean man named Ko Sang-Moon was kidnapped by North Korean agents in Norway after a taxi driver mistakenly dropped him off at the North Korean embassy instead of the South Korean embassy.