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TIL that the photo of Hitler with a gunshot to his forehead is of his double, Gustav Weler. His body was burned outside his bunker along with his wife Eva Braun right after their suicide, and Soviets took the remains for autopsy after exhuming them.

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6ELK7 TIL that The longest place name on the planet is 85 letters long.
W7VgX TIL Poetica Vaginal. Joe Davis an artist and research affiliate at MIT transmitted the sounds of vaginal contractions towards neighbouring star systems. To do so, he recorded the vaginal contractions of ballet dancers.
XEnX6 TIL that in the biopic ‘You don’t know Jack’ the original euthanasia consultations tapes were used, Dr Jack Kevorkian was replaced using computer image technology to insert Al Pacino into the scene where Kevorkian would’ve been.
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