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TIL Katrin Himmler, the grandniece of Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, was once asked if she would abstain from having children to "end the Nazi bloodline." Her response was no, explaining that the idea of good or evil being passed through bloodlines is literal Nazi ideology.

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kO5De TIL the US military uses dolphins to find and identify underwater mines because they are better at it than humans.
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