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TIL The USSR had a popular government published cookbook called “The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food“. The different editions often reflected the government’s priorities such as the removal of Stalin’s quotes after his death in 1953 as part of De-Stalinization.

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0P9N TIL Einstein mediated a hostage situation when, during the WWII aftermath, Berlin University students took several professors captive.
JYgB1 TIL A doctor saved the life of a premature baby (Chris Trokey). After 30 years Chris, who was a paramedic, was the first responder to save a person from a burning vehicle, visited the hospital and realized that the man he had helped was the man who had given him the gift of life 30 years earlier.
R7MBa TIL the wet-nurse chosen by Queen Victoria to nurse her son, the future king Edward VII, years later would use her husband’s razor blade to slit the throats of her six children.
5YJ8R TIL that people waking up in the morgue or funeral home after being declared dead still happens. In recent years this happened to a 91 yo Polish woman, a 24 yo Kenyan man and a 78 yo man from Mississippi.
V68k TIL that before John Adams died at the age of 90, his last words were “Thomas Jefferson still survives.” But Thomas Jefferson had died 5 hours before him at the age of 82, on July 4, 1826.