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TIL During WWII when Hitler visited Paris, the French cut the lift cables on the Eiffel Tower so that Hitler would have to climb the steps if he wanted to visit the summit. Hitler never went on the Eiffel Tower and it has been said that Hitler conquered France, but never conquered the Eiffel Tower.

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vjZD TIL in the 50’s and 60’s Chester M. Southam injected hundreds of innocent women and prisoners at Ohio State Penitentiary with live cancer cells “knowing at the time it might very well cause cancer”, He went onto be the VP of the American Cancer Society.
dyDE TIL that The Shawshank Redemption won zero Academy Awards, Golden Globes and SAG Awards. It did win ‘best foreign film’ from the Awards of the Japanese Academy.
BrBPW TIL following Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal-related resignation, Lieutenant Governor David Paterson was named Governor of New York, and became the 1st African American & the 2nd legally blind person to do so.
9Y15p TIL from 1946-1993, RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL (medical waste-spent nuclear fuel/reactors) was DUMPED INTO THE OCEANS by 13 nations. Records are often incomplete/incorrect, and ~982,394 cubic metres of radioactive waste was dumped in all major oceans, seas around Europe and Japan, and the English Channel.
XEJOP TIL of speed reader Kim Peek who could read a book in an hour by scanning the left page with his left eye then the right page with his right eye. He also had an exceptional memory, able to accurately recall the contents of 12,000 books.