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TIL: Tear gas cannot be used in war by militarily because it is a chemical weapon, but it can be used by police

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wLOJP TIL that Adolf Hitler joined the Nazi Party as a spy, when the German Army ordered him to infiltrate the organization.
rRRxo TIL the famous Wayne Gretzky quote about "skating to where the puck is going to be, not where it's been" is actually misattributed to him. It was said by his father Walter Gretzky.
kO58B TIL that some people don't have an Internal monologue.
165b7 TIL Cher's "Believe," released in 1998, was the first song to utilize Auto-Tune's now ubiquitous vocal warping vocal effects that experienced massive commercial success
16Mv4 TIL Lua -- the programming language behind WoW, Roblox, Wikimedia, nginx, and more -- was funded & created in 1993 by Jesuit engineers in order to comply with Brazil's strict barriers to international trade