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TIL that the sons of Hitler’s nephew made a pact to never have children, thus ending Hitler’s bloodline

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eAYE TIL due to the fact that the US Navy refused to help in the production of Crimson Tide, the producers couldn’t get footage of a submarine diving underwater. Their solution was to wait outside of Pearl Harbor and follow and film the first submarine to leave.
PYrDL TIL that Github have an archive program, where they physically store almost all influential open-source projects in the Arctic World Archive (AWA), a project similar to the Svalbard Seed Vault. The intention is to aid future historians and technologists for at least a 1000 years.
mQwv TIL that a cow named Cincinnati Freedom evaded police officers for 11 days after jumping a six-foot fence to escape a slaughterhouse; after finally being caught, and she was given the “key to the city” by Cincinnati’s mayor and allowed to live out her days in a NY sanctuary
rbOo TIL that sheep were grazing in Central Park until 1934, when they were moved during the Great Depression for fear they would be eaten.
pvBA TIL villagers living in Fucking, Austria voted to change its name to ‘Fugging’. Vote failed since another village by the same name existed whose earlier name was also 'fucking’ surprisingly.