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TIL that the one of the Romanov’s dogs survived the family’s execution and lived out the remainder of his life in exile in Britain.

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kJ1LB TIL that the "all persons are fictitious" disclaimer on most Hollywood movies is a response to a 1933 lawsuit over a film about the 1916 assassination of Rasputin. The wife of one of the people involved with the plot successfully sued MGM for invasion of privacy and libel.
5jEk TIL in Nov. 1944, Japan launched 9,300 bombs carried by balloons to the USA. These killed six civilians, crashed into a farm and caused a short circuit in power lines supplying electricity for the nuclear reactor cooling pumps in the Manhattan Project’s production facility.
gp7 TIL Mark Wahlberg had a cocaine addiction at the age of 13 and was convicted of attempted murder at the age of 16.
P8wZ TIL The principal on “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is a registered sex offender.
LQ09V TIL the chances of us being born are 1 in 400 quadrillion, to the 150.000th power...