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TIL that Rochus Misch, at the age of 95, is the last person alive to have known Hitler personally and the last survivor from the Führerbunker.

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oBy9E TIL that in 1965 University of Florida football coach Ray Graves asked some scientists at the school to develop a drink to help hydrate his players. They created the drink, and two years later the Florida Gators won their first Sugar Bowl. It helped the Gators and was called Gatoraid because of it.
j6dBM TIL that woodsman Francis Wharton made dentures from a dead deer, and then ate the deer with its own teeth
O4D7 TIL Marvel Comics created a superhero, Blue Ear, specifically for a 4 year old boy who was uncomfortable wearing hearing aids, which he needed. The boy told his mom “Superheroes don’t wear hearing aids” so Marvel created one.
D1nme TIL the first theaters in the early 1900's charged a five cents for admission, and were therefore named "nickelodeons."
R70Jw TIL: In the Viking period, Ulfberht swords were made of crucible (very pure) steel all the way from India. The exceptional quality of this steel made them so valuable that forgers faked the name Ulfberht on lower-quality swords, the equivalent of a fake designer logo.