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TIL In 2009 researchers performed DNA tests on a skull Soviet officials had longed believed to be the only remains of Hitler. The tests revealed that the skull was actually that of a woman less than 40 years old. There is still no confirmed story on Hitler’s death.

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O5d4 TIL until 2003, Blackcurrant plants were banned in the united states due to carrying a pine-tree-attacking fungus, so it’s not a common flavour and most americans have never tasted them.
WkpON TIL Chiropractic was founded by a traveling religious miracle healer who belived that magnets could cure diseases. He was sent to jail in Iowa in 1906 for practicing medicine without a license. The American Medical Association later labelled chiropractors an "unscientific cult."
MebnV TIL the first documented use of toilet paper dates back in 589AD in early medieval China. Elsewhere, wealthy people wiped themselves with wool, lace or hemp, while others used their hand when defecating into rivers, using rags, wood shavings, leaves, grass, hay, stones, sand, moss,water, snow, etc.
YpxwA TIL that during the Civil War the king of Siam (now known as Thailand) offered Lincoln war elephants to help fight the confederates. Lincoln respectfully declined.
GogQ TIL Dog The Bounty Hunter has 12 children, 4 ex-wives (1 named La Fonda), and a murder conviction.