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TIL the flag of Nazi Germany was completely designed by Adolf Hitler himself.

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Ooa4e TIL some Jewish males celebrate a second Bar Mitzvah at age 83, under the logic that the Torah states a normal lifespan is 70 years, thus an 83-year-old can be considered 13 in a second lifetime. This practice is becoming more common as people live longer, healthier lives
Rbxj TIL that diabetics’ urine can be made into whiskey because of the urine’s high sugar content
e0jnL TIL Skip Holtz, son of legendary NCAA Coach Lout Holtz and current La Tech Head football coach wrote the script for 'The Cable Guy'
W1p8 TIL Stephen Hawking can only speak at 1 word per minute. He does this by twitching his cheek to control a cursor on a screen
wong7 TIL Dallas' first skyscraper, a 15-story, neo-classical tower built in 1909 was torn down in 2012. The tower's site was replaced by a giant 30-foot fiberglass sculpture of an eyeball. The artist said there’s no deep, hidden meaning but he wanted to make something that speaks to a lot of people