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TIL Hitler claimed he didn’t have any problem with Jews until later in life when he visited Vienna (though his childhood friends dispute this)

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Y47d TIL that every year on 21 June, the BBC World Service makes a special broadcast to an audience of just 44 isolated Antarctic researchers, to celebrate midwinter.
xVQgk TIL that people in Hartlepool, England ???????????????????????????? once hanged a monkey in the belief he was a spy.
oBJEE TIL in 1983 US Interior Department secretary James Watt banned the Beach Boys from playing at the National Mall, saying the concerts encouraged drug use and attracted the wrong element. He was forced to apologize after finding Ronald Reagan was a fan.
OAv4 TIL That injured athletes will sometimes involuntarily extend their arms after a knockout or severe blow to the head. This is called the “fencing response” and is a sign of severe concussion.
9YmLp TIL that in 1988, the CIA paid $2 MM to Chad in order to extract an advanced Soviet attack helicopter (Mi-25) from an abandoned Libyan air base using two MH-47 Chinook transport helicopters, flying a total of 500 miles under the cover of night