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TIL Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin were all nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

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QG9k TIL that food related scenes in anime series are often edited to make them feel more familiar to western audiences. Typical examples include replacing rice dishes with bread or crackers.
A8O4 TIL of “canary trapping”, a method for exposing an information leak by giving different versions of a sensitive document to each of several suspects and seeing which version gets leaked.
mvry TIL Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste (they are able to extract pollutants, including radioactive metal contaminants, through their roots and store them in the stems and leaves. Making them the international symbol of nuclear disarmament).
KODa9 TIL about YInMn Blue, the first non-organic shade of blue discovered in over 200 years. It was discovered partly by accident by Mas Subramanian, who is now looking for a similar non-toxic bright-red pigment.
yVWmw TIL that three of Jonas Savimbi's children sued Activision for the portrayal of their father in the popular game Black Ops II, citing that he was presented as a "big halfwit who wanted to kill everybody", but the lawsuit was rejected.