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TIL Salvador Dali created a painting titled “Hitler Masturbating.”

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WkGm9 TIL that the south-asian country of Bhutan is carbon-negative, meaning it absorbs carbon dioxide and spits out oxygen.
woJeY TIL Flossing is basically pointless.
nerDY TIL that on 12th April 1945, for their last performance before the end of WW2, the Berlin Philharmonic performed Wagner's 'Götterdämmerung' - Twilight of the Gods - while the Hitler Youth distributed cyanide pills to the audience so they could kill themselves.
m1jMo TIL that a wealth of fossilized footprints newly discovered since 2009 suggest humans arrived in North America at least 10,000 years earlier than previously thought
VP80 TIL of a 3000 year old ball game in mexico where the losers were sacrificed to the gods; it is now being revived.