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TIL Hitler’s toilet is in a New Jersey auto shop.

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xVYWk TIL that Nördlingen was build on top of a 15 million year's old meteorite crater. Stone buildings in the town contain millions of tiny diamonds, all less than 0.2 millimetres across.
LkXMZ TIL when the first time a mile was run in under four minutes, the announcer was drowned out by the roar of the crowd when he said "The time was three..."
YZgB TIL Marvel Comics spent 10 years convincing the US Government that X-Men are NOT Human.
nWn19 TIL that in WWI, the Swiss built extensive bunkers and observation posts at "Kilometre Zero", where the Western Front's trenches ended right at their border. In 1914, fighting between French and German forces took place only metres away from neutral Swiss soil and observers.
4kXAg TIL That The Bing Crosby Laboratories and a research team funded by Crosby created the first videotape recorder (VTR).