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TIL USA is the only English speaking country that pronounces Z as zee instead of zed

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Zpy0Q TIL that one of Hitler's earliest allies and close friends, Ernst Röhm, was actually openly homosexual, despite the Nazis' hatred for homosexuality. He was the leader of the SA until 1934, when he was killed during the Night of the Long Knives.
X0oM8 Today i learned that the majority of the supercentenarians (people who've reached the age of 110) in the United States are engaged in intentional or unintentional pension fraud.
ZplmQ TIL on Station Island in Ireland, St. Patrick was reputed to have found a cave that was a literal entrance into Purgatory. For hundreds of years, pilgrims travelled to the island and would spend the night in the cave, many of whom later emerged with fantastical tales of what they'd seen inside.
GxaN TIL: Since 1968 a man with a rake would wake up early every day and hurriedly collect $1,000 from the Trevi Fountain in Rome, he was only caught in 2002.
GBZQ TIL that two attorneys general resigned on a single night, in protest after President Nixon asked them to fire an independent special prosecutor looking into the Watergate scandal. It became known as the Saturday Night Massacre