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TIL in 2008 a neo-Nazi group adopted a stretch of Missouri highway; much to the chagrin of state officials who couldn’t afford a lengthy legal battle. Instead, they renamed the highway after Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, who fled the Nazis and became a prominent theologian and civil rights advocate

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oR91Y TIL about Jim Humble, a self-proclaimed bishop that gives industrial bleach to sick people and autistic children
6YlX TIL in 2010 Sandra Bullock won a Razzie for Worst Actress and an Oscar for Best Actress within 24 hours of each other.
XEN1X TIL about Room 8, a neighborhood cat who wandered into a classroom in 1952 at an elementary school California. He lived in the school during the school year and then disappeared for the summer, returning when classes started again. This pattern continued without interruption until the mid-'60s.
EgQb0 TIL They Might Be Giants originally wrote "Boss of Me," the theme song for "Malcolm in the Middle," with the chorus "Who's gonna guess the dead guy in the envelope" for a Philadelphia radio station contest.
ZYAo TIL during WWII, Bill Tutte cracked the German Lorenz cipher using nothing more than a pen and paper, and having never seen the machine, after the Germans accidentally sent the same message twice. It is described as one the the greatest intellectual feats of the 20th Century.