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TIL The Nazis were using Meth under the name “Pervitin” to stay awake and focused in war. Even Hitler himselfe was very likely to be a meth-addict.

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5gdD TIL 21 years before L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz series, he read a disaster report of a tornado in Irving, Kansas, in May 1879 which included the name of a victim, Dorothy Gale, who was “found buried face down in a mud puddle.”
4Aw5 TIL that Blue has released more Greatest Hits albums than actual albums
4XXJb TIL that hip hop was created by a guy called DJ Kool Herc in the Bronx, NY
YL1W TIL that 95.2% of all super computers run on Linux
negoY TIL that the Pan Am airplane shown delivering Wonka Bars in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory crashed in Indonesia in 1974. 107 people died.