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TIL Salvador Dali was attracted to Hitler "“I often dreamed of Hitler as a woman. His flesh, which I had imagined whiter than white, ravished me…”

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7An7 TIL Goldman Sachs horde 25% of the World’s Aluminium then manipulate the price by delaying delivery to companies by 16 months, increasing the price of it, making them a lot of money and potentially costing consumers $5 Billion over 3 years.
D116v TIL Nickelodeon's "Gak" was named by Double Dare crew members during a road show in Philly. At the time, "Gak" was the street term for heroin.
R5k9Q TIL: The US National Anthem has 4 verses, but we only sing the first one
NpD8 TIL that legend of a female Pope exists and while the church claims it is a lie invented by 16th century Protestants, over 100 ancient texts in the Vatican library still reference her existence as Pope.
rNGd TIL on October 20, 1944, an above-ground natural gas storage tank began to leak. The gas eventually made its way into the sewers of Cleveland and eventually ignited, blowing manhole covers miles away and shooting flames up through the plumbing of homes. 130 people were killed.