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TIL that Adolf Hitlers father beat him severely every day. When his father found out that he was planning to run away, he beat him so hard that he went into a coma for days - his family unsure if he was going to live

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vPZZR TIL that prior to Louisa May Alcott's family residing at Orchard House in Concord, MA, it was the 17th-century home of John Hoare, who helped rescue and shelter Mary Rowlandson, a colonial woman captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War.
69RoY TIL A conservative majority Supreme Court has already previously handed the presidency over to the Republican candidate.
Z81J4 TIL of the Creation Evidence Museum, a museum in Texas dedicated to the display of evidence related to creationism. One of their main exhibits is found on the second floor balcony of the museum and features prominently a 12 feet high statue of Dallas Cowboys football coach Tom Landry.
b5Ma TIL in 1992 a youth group descended into a French cave with steel brushes to remove graffiti… and ended up partially removing 15,000 year old bison cave paintings.
yQGbJ TIL that General Motors chemist Thomas Midgley Jr. invented both chlorofluorocarbons and leaded gasoline, having "more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."