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TIL Arkham Asylum was named after Arkham, Massachusetts, the fictional town central to many H.P. Lovecraft stories.

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8LaG TIL there is an electric bell in Oxford University that has been ringing almost continously for 175 years.
KOJlw TIL President Lyndon Johnson established the White House Fellows program in 1964. White House Fellows spend a year working as full-time, paid special assistants to senior White House Staff, the Vice President and there can be as many as 1,000 applicants for the eleven to nineteen fellowships
kOY6m TIL About Albert Göring, the brother of Hermann Göring (2nd most powerful man in Nazi Germany), who was a rabid anti-nazi that helped save the lives of countless Jews and other dissidents.
w1YP TIL that the punk band Crass was able to spook both the MI6 and the US State Department by releasing a phony tape recording of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher discussing using Europe as a nuclear battlefield front against the USSR.
d8Z1r TIL that the couple in the Pulitzer-Prize photo “Burst of Joy” divorced within a year and the husband, Robert Stirm, who had spent over five years in a North Vietnamese prison, was forced to give 43% of his retirement to his ex-wife.