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TIL during the opening of 1936 Olympic,Adolph Hitler made a speech which was broadcasted in 41 countries.Due to the high frequency of the signal,it escaped the earth ionosphere.Carl Sagan wrote his book Contact,on alien-human encounter based on this platform that alien heard Hitlers voice first.

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eYmk TIL Mel Brooks did not have a starring role in “Young Frankenstein” (which he directed and co-wrote with Gene Wilder) because Wilder wouldn’t let him, saying: “You have a way of breaking the fourth wall, whether you want to or not. I don’t want too much to be, you know, a wink at the audience.“
lGy5 TIL that “Gropecunt Lane”, was an official street name given to those streets in medieval England where prostitution took place, because it was normal practice for a medieval street name to reflect the street’s function or economic activity taking place within it.
5VayP TIL Tommy Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer, partly with his own money. It was used to decode German messages in WWII, with two machines still used for British code-breaking until 1960
neNVo TIL in 1972, President Richard Nixon called Miami Dolphins head coach Don Shula before the Super Bowl and recommended he run a certain play. The week prior, he reportedly did the same thing with the Washington Redskins. Both teams ran the plays he suggested; both plays failed. Both teams lost.
W5W8 TIL The Damascus Four Seasons Hotel is still open with full services and describes Syria as an “extremely inviting year-round travel destination”