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TIL Henry Ford was an anti-semite and a Nazi supporter, and used his company, money and influence to spread and legitimize antisemitic views. He blamed every national problem on Jews, from strikes to depressions, and received the “Grand Cross of the German Eagle” from the Nazis in 1938.

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lgBA TIL that a loan of £1000 at the rate of 6% p.a. was given by a UK school to the city of St Albans in 1722. St. Albans City council, despite acknowledging the loan, has not made any repayments on it. As of 2012, the debt stands at £21,800,000,000 (21.8 billion GPB).
6EyYX TIL that the northern lights shows us why there is life on Earth.
R7O1j TIL when Germany invaded Western Europe many WWI monuments were damaged or destroyed. However Hitler assigned the SS to protect the Canadian Vimy Ridge memorial because it was a monument to peace and those lost. Not to an allied victory
wWm7 TIL that after the 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short (better known as the Black Dahlia), reporters called her mother, telling her that her daughter had won a beauty contest, once they pried enough personal information for their story, they informed her that her daughter had been murdered.
A7nw TIL that the solution of the Monty Hall problem (that asks to pick one of three doors to win a car, the picked door remains closed and the third one opens, then asks if you want to switch or not) is so counterintuitive that mathematician Paul Erdos was unconvinced until he saw a simulation of it