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TIL that Geobbels announced The prettiest aryan baby contest in a German newspaper. The winner was a Jewish girl.

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8arka TIL: Phil Swift founded Swift Response, the company that creates Flex-adhesive Products. They sponsor NASCAR racers and even had the product used to repair one car in the middle of a race.
aDv9 TIL… When Alan Shepard was waiting for liftoff to become the first man in space, a reporter asked him what he was thinking about. He replied “The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.”
VA94 TIL The bolt that holds the rotor onto the body of a Huey Helicopter is called the Jesus nut because if it fails the helicopter would detach from the rotors and the only thing left for the crew to do would be to pray to Jesus as they fell from the sky.
ypwl TIL that the Disney park, EPCOT, is an acronym for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow”
1a8RO TIL in 1999, Macromedia hired Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park fame to create 39 animated shorts to showcase its "Shockwave" player. The result was "Princess". Parker and Stone never heard back after submitting the first two episodes. Here's the first episode (very NSFW).