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TIL 1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.

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5Y979 TIL in 1894, in the city of Passau, Germany, a local priest saved a four year old boy from drowning when he fell through the ice on a frozen river. According to many reports, historians, and locals from the time, that child was Adolf Hitler.
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