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TIL a German author wrote a novel in which Hitler wakes up in modern Berlin with no memories since 1945 and becomes a comedian

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D1w4e TIL actor Jack Gleeson, who played King Joffrey on Game of Thrones, said the scene he enjoyed the most after three seasons on the show, was when Joffrey’s corpse was lying on a plinth in the set with ceremonial stones covering his eyes, because he got to sleep for the whole day.
DrKp TIL in addition to 23 gold medals Michael Phelps also holds the record for the longest televised putt in history.
46mb TIL the head of South Korea’s biggest plastic surgery clinic does over 100 operations daily - ranging from eyelid surgery to nose reshaping to facial contouring - because “The Chinese and Korean patients tell me that they want to have faces like Americans.”
Ea4V TIL after years spent working on the film “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan,” screenwriter Robert Towne grew dissatisfied with the production and chose to credit his dog, P.H. Vazak, with the script instead of himself. Vazak went on to become the first dog nominated for an Oscar for screenwriting.
GYnB7 TIL that in the mid 1800s people believed that travelling by train could cause insanity due to the high speeds.