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TIL That Gandhi wrote a letter to Adolf Hitler in an effort to prevent WWII from escalating

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5yRp TIL 125 people where shot crossing the Berlin wall whereas an estimated 6000 people died trying to cross the Mexico-US border in the past 15 years.
rGyw TIL to raise money for World War II, a three-way baseball game was played in New York between the Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants. It ended up raising more than $56 million in war bonds.
Vjlk TIL a 15 year old Roman Emperor named Heliogabalus, was a notorious prankster. He would get his party guests black out drunk and then dump them into a bedroom full of toothless leopards, lions and bears. He also created the 1st known ‘whoopee cushions’ using inflated animal bladders.
OGLQY TIL Abracadabra is of unknown origin, the first known mention of the word was in the second century AD by a physician to the Roman emperor who prescribed that malaria sufferers should wear an amulet containing Abracadabra written in the form of a triangle.
YpgG7 TIL that Steve Jobs named his company "Apple" partially because he wanted it to appear in the phone book before Atari, his former workplace.