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TIL that the US Government Gave Indiana University One Million Dollars to Study Memes

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N7bjb TIL Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin were all nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, with Hitler being nominated in 1939, Mussolini in 1935 and Stalin in both 1945 & 1948.
jNmQa TIL: England had a huge array of crimes punishable by the death penalty, with some odd ones in there like "being in the company of Gypsies for one month"
Y7DoP TIL about "the strangest battle in history", where US and German forces battled against the SS to protect French political prisoners.
gaGb TIL that J. J. Abrams called Galaxy Quest “one of the best "Star Trek” movies ever made.“
xOrg TIL in 2009, scientists discovered that a single, ant mega-colony had colonized much of the world on a scale rivaled only by human civilization, including 1 super colony spanning 3,700 miles along the Mediterranean coast.