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TIL that History Channel had a show called "hunting hitler" that posited the idea that hitler escaped his bunker, and the cast of the show thought a picture of Moe Howard (one of the Three Stooges) was literally Hitler

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78ZaP TIL about the 2010 book "Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer" and that Mattell apologized for the book after extensive online criticism because Barbie had her male friends code the game she was designing and that her male friends fixed Skipper's computer that Barbie had infected with a virus
E1Le7 TIL that during WWI, a bunch of Australians decided that they would go to no mans land and steal a German tank because they were bored and drunk.
b9KxZ TIL that Susan Alfond, Maine’s richest person, made her fortune by selling Warren Buffett a shoe company. Buffett would go on to call this purchase the most disastrous investment of his career and the business ultimately failed.
XnBX TIL some radar detectors use radar detector detector detectors to detect radar detector detectors to prevent detection
JY4A4 TIL “Gotham” comes from an older English for “goat home” and was first used to characterize New York in 1807 because the inhabitants where considered by the author a foolish and self-important people.