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TIL that when Elvis’ girlfriend tried to introduce him to Scientology, he said, “Fuck those people! There’s no way I’ll ever get involved with that son-of-a-bitchin’ group. All they want is my money.”

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gMoM4 TIL that sausages are older than the Bible. The oldest works of the Bible were written 3,400 years ago while the first-ever reference to sausages was in the 4,000 year old texts from Mesopotamia.
bNo0 TIL in 1942, a Finnish engineer Thor Damen secretly recorded 11 minutes of a conversation between Adolf Hitler and Finnish Defence Chief Gustaf Mannerheim. It is the only known recording of Hitler’s normal voice.
N7Kwe TIL that after his failed coup in 1923, Hitler only served eight months of his five-year sentence. This was the customary sentence for those whom the judge believed to have had honorable but misguided motives.
oXGE TIL of Whataboutism, a propaganda tactic used in the Soviet Union to discredit critics. When a criticism was posed, they would respond with “What about ____”, followed by a bad event from the west in the past.
OoJp1 TIL that parts of Russia and Alaska are only separated by 2.5 mi (4.02 km).