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TIL that the Black Sabbath hit "Fairies wear boots" is not in fact about Fairies, but about Skinheads

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D56r TIL one of Hitler’s personal chauffeurs and close friends was found to be Jewish and was targeted for expulsion from the SS by Heinrich Himmler. Upon hearing that Maurice was of Jewish descent Hitler made an exception for Maurice and his brothers calling them “honorary Aryans.”
VMrj8 TIL: Evapotranspiration or "corn sweat" can contribute to humidity. When it's already hot, push water out through tiny holes in their leaves called stomata. The water evaporates into gas. Full fields, especially where there are many fields of corn, can actually raise the dew point.
yppp TIL even though 300 was historically inaccurate, most of the one-liners (“We will fight in the shade”, “Tonight we dine in Hell”, “Only spartan women give birth to real men”) are word-for-word accurate quotes.
5y5R TIL that pro-slavery activist Edmund Ruffin - the man who fired the first shot of the Civil War - was so distraught by Confederate surrender that he wrote in his diary he would never submit to “Yankee rule” and committed suicide by gunshot to the head
ynmJ TIL Netflix and HBO have nearly identical revenue ($5.5bil & $5.4bil), but for HBO $1.8bil of that is profit…for Netflix, only $266mil is profit.