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TIL that Hitler’s nephew begged to join U.S. military to fight Nazis in 1944

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QJXJe TIL you don't need to wait 24 hours to file a missing person's report and that this is a common myth.
xOg1 TIL in the movie “Fight Club” Tyler Durden was originally going to recite a workable recipe for home-made explosives as he does in the novel. But in the interest of public safety, the filmmakers decided to substitute fictional recipes for the real ones.
6xl8 TIL Iceland is the only country without mosquitoes.
mxbdR TIL that 30% of those with ADHD do not finish high school (10% for non-AHDH), 40% get pregnant as teens (4%), 60% are accident prone (10%), 50% get into a serious car crash (17%), and 54% get fired from a least one job (31%) respectively.
PvGJ TIL Carl King, with no prior background in law, took it upon himself to prove his friend was innocent after being jailed for 21 years. The jury convicted Colin Warner on charges of second degree murder based solely on the eyewitness testimony from a 14 year old boy who admitted to lying on the stand