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TIL Hitler wished Islam had spread throughout Europe rather than Christianity

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BRxy TIL Mount Whitney, the highest point in the Contiguous U.S., is less than 90 miles (140 km) away from Badwater Basin in Death Valley, the lowest point in North America
4AXa TIL that donated blood is sold on the open market and it’s a $4.5-billion-a-year industry.
wLPg8 TIL that in 2001, the Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) distributed fake $3 bills to be dropped in Salvation Army buckets in protest of their policy against benefits for LGBT couples. Hundreds were received in Seattle.
nW0vY TIL That a Contronym is a word that can have two opposite valid meanings, for example Cleave, to split something and also hold on to something, or another example is Bolt, to affix something and also to get away. There are many others.
b9Lp TIL the Soviet Tu4 was a reversed-engineered copy of the US B29 bomber. Copied to such detail that every Tu4 had a rivet hole in one wing exactly where an unknown Boeing engineer mistakenly drilled it in the B29 used as a template.