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TIL the religious head of the Islamic Center of France, during WWII, helped more than 1000 Jews by providing them fake IDs

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QZd TIL that Hunter S. Thompson’s suicide note was titled “Football Season Is Over”. He further wrote: “No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring.”!
AGD7 TIL roughly 3% of German houses on Google Street View are blurred because their owners opted out of the program
R7Bm4 TIL there is an hermitage inside the crater of an inactive volcano in Spain
kJeVm TIL that Dennis, one of the bullies on Bully Beatdown, won all of the prize money after the MMA fighter they were up against, failed to submit or even KO them.
wxMo TIL that in 2013, a researcher at UW managed the first human to human brain interface through the Internet by wearing a cap and playing a video game. When he wanted to shoot a missile, he thought “fire” and another researcher across campus’s finger moved involuntarily and pressed the fire button.