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TIL Hitler considered the Japanese “Honorary Aryans” because of their “racial integrity.”

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DrPJ TIL A guy named Ole Worm found evidence that “lemmings were rodents and not, as some thought, spontaneously generated by the air.”
LR9d TIL Google offered to buy Friendster in 2003 for 30 million dollars. The offer was rejected and is considered to be one of the worst Silicon Valley blunders of all time.
RmP4 TIL that as an April fools prank Hot Wheels made wonder woman’s invisible jet, it was nothing more than an empty Hot Wheels packet. However, there was so much demand for it they made it into a ‘real’ product.
rRjyx TIL that 112 people died during the construction of the Hoover Dam, and the last documented fatality was the son of the first documented fatality
LkD7V TIL About “The King who ate himself to death”- King Adolf Frederick of Sweden died after eating a meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, kippers and champagne, which was topped off with 14 servings of his favourite dessert: hetvägg made of semla and served in a bowl of hot milk.