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TIL that there are five levels of closed-eye hallucinations

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78Kr TIL Rochus Misch, age 95, is the last surviving person to have known Hitler personally and witnessed his suicide. He worked as his personal bodyguard, courier and phone operator in the Fuhrerbunker, and still lives in the same house in Berlin where he moved upon his release from the Soviets in 1954
aBV0 TIL MI6 once hacked an Al-Qaeda website and replaced instructions on how to make a bomb with a cupcake recipe.
8oK TIL the Brittish army hired a magician during WWII to fool the Afrika Corps. It worked.
P1ZDw TIL that in the United States, certain types of firearms are legal to manufacture by unlicensed individuals for personal use. They are also unregulated in 35 states.
Ypebx TIL Naim Süleymanoğlu (AKA The Pocket Hercules) is the 1st and only weightlifter to have snatched 2.5 times his body weight, and the 2nd of only 7 lifters to date to clean and jerk 3x his body weight. He is the only weightlifter to date to clean and jerk 10 kilos more than 3x his bodyweight.