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TIL 3 of Adolf Hitler’s cousins live quietly in Long Island New York. None of them have children and it is rumored that they refuse to have children so the family line with die with them.

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b6N10 TIL that in 2021, Sophia Urista, the lead singer of the band Brass Against, consensually urinated on a man live on stage during one of the band's shows. The band later apologized, saying the singer got "carried away" and "it's not something you'll see again at our shows."
p8wNN TIL that snow and ice are only slippery because of a 4 molecule thick layer of water that is always present at the surface down to as cold as -30C; below -30C it becomes a true solid and skating and skiing are extremely difficult
gM1P4 TIL that Frank Herbert’s Dune was rejected by more than 20 publishing houses before first being accepted by Chilton, known today mostly for their automobile repair manuals.
KOK9J TIL about The tragedy of the commons- an economic problem in which every individual has an incentive to consume a resource at the expense of every other individual with no way to exclude anyone from consuming resulting in overconsumption and ultimately depletion of the resource.
751b TIL in 1916, the German military conducted the Judenzählung (census of Jews). Designed to confirm accusations of lack of patriotism among German Jews, the census disproved the charges. In fact, A higher % of German Jews fought in WWI than of any other ethnic, religious or political group in Germany.