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TIL that there was a 60s band named Nirvana that tried to sue the 90s band for having the same name as them. They wanted to cover them after that, but the project was scrapped due to Kurt Cobains death.

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wLklJ TIL Robert E. Lee owned a plantation across the river from Washington DC until the start of the civil war. The Lees abandoned the home and the Union army occupied their land, ultimately burying Union war dead there to spite Lee for his treason. It is now Arlington National Cemetery.
6ExNw TIL there was an unmade Seinfeld episode called The Bet. Its plot was Elaine buying a gun for protection but the cast and director hated it saying "guns aren't funny". It was the ninth episode put into production before being abandoned.
vPVkx TIL that the Sand Dollar is a living organism
pvaO TIL that JJ Thompson won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that electrons act as particles, while his son GP Thompson won the Nobel Prize for discovering that electrons act as waves.
4Wlo TIL of Nancy Wake, a secret agent who served Britain during WW2 and who became the Gestapo’s most wanted person. Her exploits included judo-chopping a man to death, and cycling 310 miles undetected through German territory and checkpoints to replace codes which had been destroyed in a raid.