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TIL: Hilter sent a secret expedition to Antarctica for Whale fat to make margarine as part of the “German Fat Plan”

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R7Ydj TIL about Braess’s Paradox: adding an extra road to a network can cause more traffic for everyone - even without any increase in the number of cars!
x6AKb TIL that Napoleon's parents fought against the French conquest of Corsica. Napoleon was born three months after the conquest was successful, thus a French citizen and eventually its emperor.
0XM5 TIL Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi were enemies. Churchill favored letting Gandhi die if he went on a hunger strike, and during the Bengal famine of 1943 responded to urgent requests to divert food supplies to India with a telegram asking, if food was so scarce, “why Gandhi hadn’t died yet”.
JPGV TIL That the man who sang “You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch” also find the voice for Tony the Tiger in the Frosted Flakes commercials.
j4dj TIL Ulysses S. Grant was pulled over for riding his horse and buggy too quickly. Realizing it was the president the officer apologized and offered to ignore the infraction, but Grant replied “I was speeding, you caught me and I’ll pay the ticket.” He was fined $5, which would have been $91 today.