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TIL that Adolf Hitler was injected with a daily dose of methamphetamine by his doctors from 1942-1945

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BrLvD TIL of the Voyager Golden Record, which was launched with Voyager 1 and designed to represent Earth. It includes the sound of whales, Beethoven's compositions, a printed president from President Carter, a woman's brainwaves while thinking about love, the sound of waves crashing, among other sounds.
b6lpa TIL of Strivers' Row, a district of Harlem, NYC, whose houses were built in the 1890s. The houses sat empty for more than 20 years because at first the owner would only sell to white people, but by the 1920s the area had become the leading district for upper-middle class black families.
LkN9d TIL: The sound of a TIE Fighter from Star Wars is a combination of an elephant call with a car driving on wet pavement
E1pDo TIL to make this snowflake, it's so easy.
gEML TIL that when author George R. R. Martin was a kid, he wrote stories about a mythical kingdom populated by his pet turtles; the turtles died frequently in their toy castle, so he finally decided they were killing each other off in “sinister plots”.