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TIL that Coco Chanel, famed fashion designer and feminine icon, was a homophobe, an anti-Semite and a Nazi collaborator

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7rRr7 TIL that George HW Bush's eldest daughter's intended name was Pauline Pierce Bush, until his mother pointed out that her initials would be P. P. Bush which "would never do"
9RGp TIL a Norwegian comedian wanted to prove that songs could become club hits without making any sense, so he collected randoms words and names in Spanish (a language he did not speak) as lyrics and added cliché saxophones and accordion mixes. The song charted across Europe, reaching #1 in some places.
9g5G TIL that the inventor of the first ever video game also helped to invent the first nuclear bomb.
8aYrG TIL Kepler-62e is one of several recently discovered water world planets in the habitable zone of its parent star
GYgxE TIL that in "Oblomov", the second novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, it takes the protagonist the first 50 pages, to get up from bed, and move to a chair.