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TIL that Hitler only became a German citizen in 1932, only a year before he took power

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KYbNE TIL In Football, the quarterback doesn’t need to say hike to start the play
9jDr TIL there is a sport called ‘kiiking’ , popular in Estonia, where people swing on swings all the way, a full 360 degrees
ajMZ TIL that a company in England accidentally sent letters to some of its wealthy customers that began “Dear Rich Bastard”. One customer who did not receive the letter complained, certain their wealth was enough to warrant the “rich bastard” title.
R5xyl TIL that during the Cold War, the CIA experimented with using pigeons equipped with tiny cameras to conduct aerial surveillance. While it sounds like a joke, pigeons were genuinely deployed for spy missions!
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