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TIL Adolf Hitler’s nephew escaped from Germany, moved to the United States, and enlisted in the US Navy fighting the axis powers during WWII.

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78GV7 TIL that in 2000 Andre Geim won the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for levitating a frog using magnets. In 2010 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on graphene.
OGOnY TIL Missy Elliott wrote and performed on Raven-Symone’s 1993 debut rap song, “That’s What Little Girls are Made Of.” Missy was left off the music video for not being physically attractive enough.
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