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TIL that Adolf Hitler favored Clark Gable above all other actors. During World War II, Hitler offered a sizable reward to anyone who could capture and bring Gable to him unscathed.

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jNerj TIL about the concept of 'invented tradition', in which something believed or touted to be ancient is actually modern, such as ancestral Scottish clan-tartans, which are actually a 19th-century creation.
a790 TIL in the past 100 years, 80% of the biomass of fish in the world’s oceans has been lost.
oBrwK TIL That the film "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" was based on the life of comedian Bert Kreischer. Kreischer is known for his partying antics, and for his "Machine" story where he talks about robbing a train with Russian mafia while on a class field trip during his senior year at FSU.
Bg0ne TIL the Las Vegas Sphere's theater screen required such high resolution that they made the largest commercially available sensor, a 316 megapixel camera capable of 18k resolution. The image on the screen is 16K driven by 25 synchronized 4K video servers, taking up to 60GB per second of footage.
npZ9 TIL In 1975, two men got a marriage license in Colorado after the clerk couldn’t find a law against it. When they applied for a spouse’s visa, the U.S. government mailed a letter saying, “You have failed to establish that a bona fide marital relationship can exist between two faggots.”