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TIL Adolf Hitler was nicknamed “Teppichfresser”, or “Carpet-Eater”, behind his back by party leaders. He would have nervous breakdowns over Czechslovakia, and hurl himself onto the ground to start chewing on his carpet.

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D1Y7g TIL of the most rural post office in the US; the Supai Post Office is at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and is serviced by a mule train that takes 2.5 hours to reach it. It services the Havasupai reservation and demonstrates the obligation of the US Postal System to service every community.
X0DrQ TIL Video game artist, Claire Hummel, observed fan-drawn porn of one of her characters, Lutece of BioShock; was so irritated by the anachronistic undergarments that she posted a guide on drawing time-accurate undergarments. She didn't discourage risque fan art as she herself had drawn lewd fanart
YyWd TIL that in the 2010 BP gulf oil spill BP and the US Coast Guard used a “chemical dispirsant” that they claimed broke up the oil. Instead it just sank the oil temporarily, made it 52x more toxic, did nothing to clean it up, and is extremely poisonous. BP knew all of this before using it
M7A5m TIL Huy Fong’s sriracha (rooster sauce) almost exclusively used peppers grown by Underwood Ranches for 28 years. This ended in 2017 when Huy Fong reneged on their contract, causing the ranch to lose tens of millions of dollars.
ormA TIL that Herman Göring had a brother who blatantly and dangerously resisted the Nazi regime through acts of sabotage and forgery, and that one week before his death, married his housekeeper so that she could receive his government pension.