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TIL when the Nazis designated the Beer Hall Putsch site as “sacred” and made it compulsory for citizens to do the Nazi salute when passing-by, as a form of passive resistance, people would take a detour alley that is nicknamed “Shirker’s Lane”, bypassing the beer hall completely.

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VMrE8 TIL, the Monterey Cyprus only grows in two small regions near Carmel and Monterey CA. At one point it was a part of a larger forest that extended to the continental shelf.
awb1J TIL Stalin’s head of Poisons’ Laboratory, who spent years trying to find an undetectable poison leading to death by cardiac failure, died himself of a cardiac failure after reminding Krushchev how they took part together to a political assassination
VMyrm TIL that here In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30–40 percent of the food supply and that’s enough to fill a 90,000-seat stadium every single day.
kgE7 TIL that the Mushroom upgrade sound effect from Super Mario Bros is just a highly-sped up arpeggio similar to the end-of-level celebration theme. (Watch at about 0:57 to 1:08).
OGex7 Today I learned that all planets are round because of gravitational forces.