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TIL of the Hitler Teapot - a teapot that sold out at JC Penny stores once people noticed it resembled Hitler

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78yyZ TIL Willem Dafoe played a fictionalized version of German actor Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire (2000), produced by Nicolas Cage, earning an Oscar nomination for his role. Schreck originally portrayed Count Orlok in the 1922 Nosferatu. Dafoe later starred in the 2024 remake of Nosferatu.
4Re5 TIL the term “Devil’s Advocate” comes from the historical position of “Promoter of the Faith”, a canon lawyer who would argue against the Canonisation of a Saint.
0xDp TIL that “⸮” has been proposed as a punctuation mark to denote irony since the 1580s.
W7QRN TIL scientists in a restricted zone, closed off to the public, discovered a plant grown out of the solidified lava. It was a tomato plant. Further research concluded it was from a tomato seed grown from the defecation of a scientist
XE9R6 TIL the combined wealth in the world is $360 trillion.