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TIL Groucho Marx, on a trip to Berlin in 1958, danced the Charleston on the rubble of Hitler’s bunker

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R5nl TIL the amount of content on the World Wide Web that can’t be found by regular search engines is several orders of magnitude larger than the content that can be found.
oRpkY TIL that US Navy sailors in World War II drank torpedo juice, a blend of 180-proof grain alcohol fuel from a torpedo and pineapple juice. Despite the Navy's attempts to render the alcohol undrinkable, sailors still found ways around this to varying degrees of effectiveness.
mkVR TIL: Getting a blood transfusion won’t change your DNA and an episode of M.A.S.H. addressed this issue in which they tricked a racist soldier to think that he had turned black after getting blood from a black donor.
9YB7X TIL In Germany you can be punished by up to one year in prison if you don't help someone who's in danger or has had an accident
W75GY TIL contrary to popular belief, corruption in El Salvador has increased for the last four years with Bukele as President, and is 23% higher now than before he was elected