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TIL the German Reichstag/parliament in 1933 voted to give Hitler absolute control. 1 person spoke against it:Social Democratic leader Otto Wels, who spoke the last free words in the Reichstag:“You can take our lives & our freedom, but you cannot take our honor. We are defenseless but not honorless.”

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E1O1p TIL of Patent Trolls or Patent Hoarding. Evidently, they acquire and hold useful patents with no intention of developing the technology, and then sue anyone who tries to use a similar idea.
VZkm TIL: When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, a Massachusetts church feared he would impose his French “religious infidelity” on the country – so their pastor delivered a “Mammoth Cheese” to the White House inscribed with a quote from Jefferson: “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God”
oBZ5o TIL Vince Coleman, a railway dispatcher, sacrificed his life in order to warn an incoming train of an imminent explosion. His telegraph said "Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys." He saved 300 lives.
epMon TIL there is a "gravity hole" in the Indian Ocean—where Earth's mass is reduced, causing weaker gravitational pull and lower-than-average sea levels. This anomaly likely formed when the Tethys Ocean disappeared between India and Central Asia and forced lower-density magma closer to the surface.
neP0b TIL how the human introduced Burmese python is destroying the everglades