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TIL Both Stalin and Hitler were Nominated for Nobel Peace Prizes

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L9E9 TIL Starting in September 2016, the Italian government is giving every 18-year old citizen a cultural allowance of $500 euros ($563 dollars). This money is to be spent on culture, from concert tickets, books and museum admission to other qualifying events.
6EL4l TIL Paul Kruger, longtime statesman and president of the South African Republic, was a flat earther.
1rV7 TIL Chadwick(the discoverer of the neutron) was a student of Rutherford (discoverer of the proton) who was the student of Thomson (the discoverer of the electron)
9wJr TIL Hitler’s unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf, written in 1928, praised the US as a ‘racially successful’ society.
wLEjJ TIL about Ruth Corker Burks. In the darkest hour of the AIDS epidemic, she cared for hundreds of people whose families had refused to claim them.