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TIL Hitler wished Islam had spread throughout Europe rather than Christianity

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8oeK TIL OJ Simpson’s father was a well-known drag queen in the SF area and died of AIDS in 1986.
ADX9g TIL that Uranus smells like farts because its atmosphere consists largely of hydrogen sulfide.
8eeDa TIL Nobel winner James Watson wrote "The Double Helix" in a fiction like style to attract young people in science. He originally wanted to title his memoir "Honest Jim", and then "Base Pairs", but his co-discoverer Francis Crick had issues with it
Wky6A TIL Jadin Bell was a sophomore in high school, where he committed suicide due to excessive bullying. His father planned to walk across the country to spread awareness for bullying, where he was killed by a semi.
kJvV4 TIL that Makoto Shinkai, director of the anime films Your Name, Weathering with You, and Suzume no Tojimari , had an asteroid named after him in 2018.