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TIL Hitler suffered from presbyopia and secretly wore reading glasses. He avoided to be seen in public with glasses as he believed they would compromise his ability to capture people by means of mimic, gestures as well as of his expression

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D1Kvp TIL Boston Police officers cared for a stray cat named "SWAT Cat" for 3 years; when the calico cat went missing, Officer Pietroski, (15-yr veteran of BPD), worked after hours to build a "kitty condo" including a large deck & sliding glass doors. The cat returned and moved into the new home.
Gvgg TIL there is an episode of Supernatural in which the two main characters are sent to an alternate universe in which they play the actors that play their characters on Supernatural (themselves) who are in the middle of filming an episode of a TV show called Supernatural.
jDyX TIL of Castner’s Cutthroats, a platoon of Army scouts who served in the Aleutian Islands Campaign of WW2. The group was composed of trappers, hunters, miners and Native Alaskans. They seldom used ranks and never wore uniforms. In addition to recon missions, they fought in the bloody Battle of Attu.
Zpgdp TIL that the end of the northern part of the Pan-American Highway, (which extends all the way from Alaska to the tip of South America), abruptly ends in a nondescript residential neighborhood in Yaviza, Panama, north of the Darien Gap.
WkJYd TIL architect Edmund Bacon (Kevin Bacon's dad) illegally skateboarded across Philadelphia's LOVE Park, the plaza he helped design, to protest the city's skateboard ban.