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TIL that Reinhard Heydrich served as the president of the International Criminal Police Commission/INTERPOL from 1940-42

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XXYE TIL there’s a lot of plastic trash in the ocean. We dumped about five shopping bags full of plastic for every foot of coastline in the world in 2010 alone.
69vdW TIL Professional poker great Stu Ungar overdosed on drugs during the third day of the 1990 World Series of Poker Main Event, but he had already assembled such a great chip lead that he was able to make the final table and finish 9th in the tournament without playing another hand.
kJRg TIL that Wagner’s music was a major source of inspiration for Hitler and as a result no Wagner has been performed in Israel until very recently.
N7QJM TIL that the Los Angeles area basin is classified as a Mediterranean climate
7m6r TIL of “Fritz the Cat,” a 1972 adult animated feature that was the first to ever receive an X rating and became the highest grossing independent animated feature of all time.