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TIL Adolf Hitler helped design the Volkswagen Beetle.
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TIL about the Count of St. Germain who was an 18th-century adventurer who achieved prominence in European high society, but nothing is known about him because he kept lying about it. He knew many languages. He was a musical composer and violinist. He knew history, and was an accomplished chemist.
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TIL that "riffling" through someone's belongings, and "rifling" through someone's belongings are two distinct yet similar activities. I had always assumed one was just a spelling mistake.
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TIL Abraham Lincoln's corpse was sent on a two-week funeral tour across America, shown openly to thousands. In the course of the trip the body visibly decomposed, bloated, and darkened. In New York City alone, the body was seen by over 150,000 and exposed to the air for 23 hours straight
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TIL that real dead bodies were used on the set of “Apocalypse Now.” The man who supplied them turned out to be a grave robber and was arrested.
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TIL that sperm counts among western men have halved in last 40 years