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TIL President Eisenhower predicted Holocaust Deniers, so he ordered pictures be taken of concentration camps.

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EgZnp TIL in 1933 'stereo records' invented by Alan Dower Blumlein. Sadly, Blumlein did not live to see the lasting impact his many innovations had. He was killed on 7 June 1942, when the Halifax bomber he was flying in crashed during a trial of the H2S radar system. He was 38.
7gg7 TIL Samsung’s chairman went on a three day rant to his hundreds of executives in a German hotel conference room. Samsung took his speech, turned it into a book about management and used it as its guiding principles from there on in.
oRyYK TIL: That a man named Charles Grady once sued the Doritos company claiming that his throat had been damaged while eating Doritos. Grady attempted to admit into evidence a study by a former chemistry professor that calculated how best to safely swallow the chips, but it was subsequently rejected.
GZgg TIL Weird Al owes much of his success to a radio show host named Dr. Demento
dV1Q TIL there is a conspiracy theory that Andrew WK is actually fabricated piece of performance art, concocted by a secret organization and is actually “performed” by multiple people.