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TIL Adolf Hitler helped design the Volkswagen Beetle.

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kODd1 TIL chemists have developed two plant-based plastic alternatives to the current fossil fuel made plastics. Using chemical recycling instead of mechanical recycling, 96% of the initial material can be recovered.
kOjDd TIL Miners would inhale aluminum powder to coat their lungs and "prevent" silica based diseases, resulting in many suffering from ALS today.
W7DdA TIL in 2016 a man in China who took a selfie with a walrus was killed by the animal afterward, when it dragged him into water & held him under. Spectators & zoo staff thought it was just "playful behavior" at first. Eventually its trainer jumped in to help, but it killed him too by holding him under
8004 TIL that 22% of men and 30% of women in Eastern Congo report being victims of conflict-related sexual violence, and that 97% of the NGOs working in that field don’t even mention male victims in any of their literature.
RG8j TIL that Greenland Sharks are estimated to live to upto 500 years old.