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TIL Erich Hartmann, the #1 scoring fighter pilot ace of all time, got drunk and stole Hitler’s hat.

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b9X8j TIL about Peter's Principle OR why everyone sucks at their job. People who excel at work are promoted, to a point where they are incompetent. With every promotion, you are closer to newer and more complex job needs. This incrementally makes you worse at your job to the point of incompetency.
d8Qj9 TIL back in the 1700s, doctors would literally blow smoke up people’s asses to resuscitate them
wP4P TIL that Charles Darwin died feeling guilty that he knowingly inbred 10 children with his 1st cousin and passed on crappy genetics which killed 3 of them before the age of ten.
dGxE TIL that ghost peppers are used in India as a repellant to ward off elephants, preventing them from eating and destroying crops
ojYK TIL that the media can legally lie in the United States, determined by a case in 2003.