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QJoae TIL Hitler's niece mysteriously died in his Munich apartment in 1931
krMe TIL that Iceland is considered the most peaceful country in the world.
Men9b TIL 16th century English writers added silent letters to many words to better link them to Greek or Latin, even if no such link existed, such as the b in debt or s in island
wjL8 TIL in 2001 a man robbed his victims by cutting hazelnuts in half, inserting a sedative drug, and glueing them back together. He would wait for them to pass out, and then steal their belongings.
dDm6r TIL Tolkien rewrote a small part of Hobbit when he was working on LotR, changed the part about Gollum betting the ring on question game and parting way nicely to getting angry over losing the ring. Because the ring used in LotR was supposed to corrupt the user with greed.