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TIL in 1973 the artist Salvador Dali did a painting depicting Adolf Hitler masturbating on a snowy hillside

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9YPPQ TIL of Major Digby Tatham-Warter, a British major who brought an umbrella into battle, using it to stop an armoured vehicle by poking the driver's eye and saving a chaplain. When a fellow soldier complained about it, he answered "oh my goodness, but what if it rains?"
p6x8 TIL The script for Being John Malkovich was written exclusively for John Malkovich (without his knowledge). New Line Cinema dropped the film after asking “Why the fuck can’t it be being Tom Cruise?” When John Malkovich first read the script he was “half intrigued and half horrified.”
QNR8X TIL there are historical records that provide some basis for the folk tale of John Henry racing the steam drill.
VBrXB TIL Whaling had it's biggest catches in 1960s and 1970s with the Soviet union being one of the biggest whaling counties in the world.
4k05w TIL Manhattan is encircled by an 18-mile-long fishing line called an eruv, which symbolically extends the private domicile to the area it encloses, allowing observant Jews to carry items (such as keys or a baby stroller) out of their homes on the Sabbath.