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TIL in 1914 the wife of the French PM assassinated a newspaper editor to prevent him from leaking that she and her husband had been dating while still married to their previous spouses. She was acquitted for 'uncontrollable female emotions'

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Z8Qy4 TIL thousands of people of Jewish decent were conscripted or volunteered into the German army during WWII, some ending up in senior positions. Hitler personally signed off on the "declaration of German blood" for 77 high-ranking officers who had Jewish parents or were married to Jews.
VBpZ8 Today I learned that in the earliest version of the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill", Jill was a boy named Gill.
ervE TIL: The King of Norway is 73rd in line to the British throne.
0d0Wj TIL Apple Pie isn't all that American, despite the saying "As American as Apple Pie." Neither Apples nor Apple Pie are unique to, nor originally from America.
GYdLQ TIL the main cause of "soft errors" in computer memory is cosmic rays. Systems buried in caves have a negligible rate of cosmic-ray induced soft errors; computers on mountains have a far higher error rate than at sea level; and the rate of errors in aircraft can be over 300 times the sea level rate