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TIL Adolf Hitler was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize

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Z8yx4 TIL that Discovery Channel lied to a scientist in order to get him to participate in a fake documentary on Voodoo sharks for Shark Week, and edited the interviews on Bull Sharks to make it appear as if he was researching the Cryptid Shark. He did not know what the program was about until it aired.
6E8BW TIL of the Smokey Bear Effect, and how the stringent prevention of wildfires by the U.S. Forest Service has led to "megafires" which are much more destructive and even fatal.
YVbv TIL in 1944 a sixteen-year-old black student in Columbus, Ohio, won an essay contest on the theme ‘What to Do with Hitler after the War’ by submitting the single sentence, “Put him in a black skin and let him live the rest of his life in America.”
Rp66 TIL: An elderly couple was unable to remove three Kirby vacuum salesmen from their home for over five hours;a disabled woman living in a mobile home on $1000/month income and suffering from Alzheimers was discovered to own two Kirby vacuum cleaners, having paid $1,700 for the second one
KYNJE TIL the band Rednex, most famous for the song Cotton Eye Joe, is Swedish