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TIL that Grace Kelly and her family had to provide Prince Rainier of Monaco with a dowry of $2 million in order for the marriage to go ahead.

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MenLB TIL that if February, Germany charged a 95 year old woman with 10,000 counts of aiding and abetting murder because she was a stenographer for a SS officer at a concentration camp when she was 17. She lives in a nursing home, but if the case goes to trial, she will be tried in juvenile court.
7r8YP TIL Isreal is one of the few countries that has mandatory military service for women, and as of 2011, 51% of Israel Defense Forces Officers were women, compared to the United States' 14.2%.
QJ0Zd TIL that Mitch Mitchell was chosen over Ansley Dunbar to be the drummer for the Jimi Hendrix Experience by a coin toss. He would later not be chosen as the drummer for Paul McCartney and Wings when he lost a coin toss.
4kveo TIL that Michelangelo was 24 when he completed La Pietà
v1BJ8 TIL that in the early 1800’s the Russians tried to invade Hawaii, which was an independent kingdom at the time. However, a force of natives and American traders expelled them and forced them to return to Russia.