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TIL that Burkina Faso students invented a soap that repels the malaria mosquito – malaria is the highest cause of death is Sub-Saharan Africa

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gMkxX TIL Hitler's lover, Eva Braun, attempted suicide in 1932 by shooting herself in the chest with her father's pistol. Historians feel the attempt was not serious, but was a bid for Hitler's attention. In 1935 she attempted suicide again by overdose, when Hitler failed to make time for her in his life.
YJW7 TIL that at the 1945 Potsdam Conference, Churchill, Truman & Stalin couldn’t agree on who should enter the door to the meeting room first. After much debate, they settled on an agreeable plan: They entered the room at precisely the same time using 3 separate doors
EgWBw TIL Nintendo released a Japan-exclusive game distribution service for the Super Famicom and Game Boy called "Nintendo Power." It allowed players to save up to seven games at a time onto a proprietary flash cartridge. The service lasted from 1997 to 2007.
Wrrd TIL in 1954 the USA overthrew the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution. It installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed dictators who ruled Guatemala.
R5M5w TIL that states required blood tests to get married until 1980, the latest being Montana in 2019. These blood tests originally checked for syphilis when it was a crisis and transitioned to checking for STDs.