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TIL "Spandau" was the manufacturer of Nazi machine guns - when the weapon was fired at someone's shins they would dance around, in a "Spandau Ballet"

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gMo97 TIL North Korea plays basketball with different rules. Slam Dunks are 3 pts, Three-point “nothing but net” shots are worth 4 pts, and teams lose points when they miss free throws.
8aLXL TIL that Matthew Broderick's secret relationship with Jennifer Grey became public after he drove on the wrong side of the road in Ireland and hit a car head on, killing a woman and her mother
4QbX TIL that the man who led the attack on Pearl Harbor became a Christian evangelist after the war and settled in the US
a8eJo TIL that while the Emperor Titus has received almost universal praise, one Roman historian dared to point out that this was likely because his reign barely lasted two years before he suddenly died.
On5e TIL the American spelling of aluminum (as opposed to aluminium in other countries) is the result of a misspelling by the inventor of a refinement process named Charles Martin Hall. The process was so revolutionary that the spelling stuck.