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TIL that people actually believe that the Nazis went to the coldest and most inaccessible place on the planet to hunt whales just before WW2 because they needed more fat for their population...

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KYY4J TIL Thomas Jefferson's grandson was a Confederate general during the Civil War
Vl4B TIL That no one knows who invented the fire hydrant, because its patent was destroyed in a fire.
rdgo TIL Anders Celsius originally created the temperature scale with 100 degrees as freezing and 0 degrees as boiling. Carl Linnaeus, another scientist, waited until he died to change the scale to what it is today.
8ew1G TIL Benjamin Franklin Was a Big a Pervert as TFG
NRN6 TIL that the show ‘Deadliest Catch’ is bad for competition in the Bering Sea Fishing industry. The subsidies all the boats in the show receive allows them to undercut or break even with their seasonal catch.