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TIL Hitler never visited a single concentration camp, nor did he ever talk about the killings taking place.

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OYag T.I.L. that Clowns International, the oldest clown registry in the world, keeps a gallery of eggs painted with individual member’s makeup patterns. Whenever a member dies, their egg is smashed. It works as a form of copyright.
4Xpva TIL that the paragraph from "Cambridge University" that you can read despite the "jumbled" order of the letters isn't so jumbled, wasn't from Cambridge, the "researcher" doesn't exist, and the supposed effect doesn't really work.
eewk TIL that as many as 1.2 million US citizents of Mexican descent were forced out of the United States from 1929-1939 by federal and local authorities | It was claimed that the expulsions would free up jobs for “real Americans” during the Great Depression
aN8A TIL that in 2001, Pizza Hut delivered a pizza to the international space station for Russian cosmonauts via a Soyuz rocket.
neaGB TIL: In 1982, 3 men in Allentown, PA sat on a billboard for 261 days to win a house. It was to promote the station, WSAN-AM’s format change from country music to nostalgic hits. Instead of promoting the station, the contest became a story that symbolized the economic struggles of the early 1980s.