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TIL Joseph Stalin tried to have John Wayne assassinated.
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TIL the Australian 1 and 2 cent coins were withdrawn from circulation in 1992. The recovered coins were melted down to make the bronze medals for the Sydney 2000 Olympics
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TIL: Harvard university students whose families earn below $60,000 a year receive free tuition which includes free room and board
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TIL you were supposed to be 18 to audition for That 70s Show. Mila Kunis was only 14, so she told casting directors that was “going to be 18,” without saying when. It was technically true and she got the part.
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TIL that, in 1844, while dignitaries were visiting the USS Princeton, a gun exploded, killing the Secretaries of State and Defense. President Tyler was belowdecks. Afterwards, he carries away the fainted daughter of one of the dead dignitaries. He marries her a few months later, making her First Lad
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TIL of Dr. Hawley Crippen, an unfaithful husband who was executed in 1910 for the murder of his wife Cora, after parts of a decomposed body were found in his cellar. Crippen claimed she had left him for another man and moved away. In 2007, DNA evidence indicated that the body was not Cora’s.