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TIL Hitler declared that the Japanese were Honorary Aryans

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gMjL7 TIL Mavis Beacon is not a real person. She was played by Renée L'Espérance, who worked at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills.
ANKva TIL in 1998, the FBI sought to extract DNA from the cigarette butts smoked in 1971 by the unidentified airline hijacker known only as D.B. Cooper, but discovered the butts had been destroyed while in the custody of the Las Vegas field office.
R7Ay1 TIL that a newly hired employee attacked a huge professional telescope with a gun and a hammer, damaging the primary mirror. The damage was never repaired, and the telescope is still in use today.
d8yWB TIL that in 1896, Irish-American inventor Patrick Cunningham sabotaged a town rally for presidential candidate William McKinley by firing his rocket-powered "flying devil" torpedo down the main street.
R7kal TIL Days before his death Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore and how he came to be like this has remained a mystery. It’s been suggested he may have been a victim of “cooping” in which unwilling participants are drugged and forced to vote for a particular candidate..