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TIL that Hitler had absolutely no reason to declare war on the USA

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womXJ TIL that a fake baby (doll) was used in the 2014 film American Sniper because the real baby that was supposed to play in the scene showed up with a fever and the second baby was a no show. In one media screening of the film, the audience laughed out loud at how artificial the doll appeared.
oB6M7 TIL of buttock mail, a tax historically levied in Scotland as a punishment for sex outside of marriage
1616D TIL 5 of the Top 10 Most Attended Concerts of All Time were held at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, including the Number 1 show, played by Rod Stewart on New Years Eve of 1994
LkAPZ TIL: A Harvard study found that graduate students are 3 time more likely to have depression than the average American. It suggest that this is due to doctoral students being overworked and underpaid and questioning "what is my purpose?"as most don't know when they have researched enough.
OowNY TIL The city of Hopkinsville, Kentucky has a yearly festival called "Kelly Little Green Men Days" to commemorate the Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter of August 21, 1955 when small alien creatures invaded the home of the Sutton family.