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TIL Hitler was almost killed by a malfunctioning V-1 bomb after it hit his headquarters where he was planning his defense against the Normandy landings.

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9Y56M TIL that the green falling code in The Matrix is actually sushi recipes. Simon Whiteley, the creator of the Matrix' distinctive code, said he scanned characters from his wife's Japanese cookbook and then manipulated them
6ENYl TIL that Russian cosmonauts used to carry a gun into space, in case they missed their landing spot and got stranded in the Siberian wilderness.
VxMk TIL that not only can a woman get pregnant while already pregnant, but can have the babies of two different men at once.
4kL66 TIL the voice of AOL’s “You’ve got mail!” is named Elwood Edwards and as of 2016 was an Uber driver in Cleveland
8eQ4 TIL that in 2010 security researchers were invited to try to tamper with an Internet voting pilot. Within 36 hours they had made the website play the Michigan fight song and changed all the votes to write-ins for various fictional robots and computers.