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TIL Werner Herzog directed a documentary with 88 year old Mikhail Gorbachev in 2019. Herzog began the program by apologising for being a German because he assumed they wanted to kill him growing up, but Gorbachev said kindly Germans were his grandfather’s neighbours

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b9nOp TIL Thomas Jefferson's epitaph, which he wrote himself, states "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia." It makes no mention of his Presidency.
78b8M TIL In the late 1930's, several Jewish Mafia groups disrupted the influence of pro-Nazi groups in the US, like the German-American Bund, by beating up several of its members at various rallies. A NY state judge tacitly approved these attacks, on the condition that no one was killed.
DQp6j TIL that physical size and metabolism are directly correlated to time perception in all animals. Which may explain part of why you perceive time passing quicker with age.
4X7dJ TIL of the Burnden Park Disaster, a crowd crush at a football match in Bolton, England in 1946 in which 33 people were killed. 30 minutes after the crush, with the dead laying at the side of the pitch, the game restarted.
D1EBP TIL that John Paul Jones, the “Father of the American Navy”, a legendary admiral after whom warships were named, was born simply “John Paul”. He added “Jones” when he joined the U.S. Navy because he was a criminal fugitive from England.