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TIL Getúlio Vargas, Brazil's dictator who got overthrown after WW2, was fairly reelected president in 1951. However, a political crisis in 1954 ended with Vargas shooting himself in the chest.

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69DGJ TIL Grace Darling, a lighthouse keeper’s daughter, became a national heroine in 1838 for helping rescue survivors of the Forfarshire shipwreck off the coast of Northumberland.
doar TIL Kenya’s national motto is “Harambe”
neR77 TIL The German army employed large numbers of captured soviet T-34s tanks. they were designated by the Germans as Panzerkampfwagen T-34 747(r). In order to prevent recognition mistakes, large swastikas were painted on the tanks, in order to prevent attack by Axis aircraft.
wZVY TIL Helena Bonham Carter accidentally ruptured the eardrum of Matthew Lewis (playing Neville Longbottom) when she stuck her wand in his ear during HP and the Order of the Phoenix.
GAoY4 TIL that Mary Celeste, the infamous ghost ship, was later sunk by its new owner in an insurance fraud attempt.