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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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JVW4 TIL Alexander the Great once asked Diogenes, a homeless Greek philosopher who lived in a barrel, if there was something he could do for him. Diogenes replied “yes, get out of my sun”. Alexander left saying, “If I wasn’t Alexander, I’d like to be Diogenes.”
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b7Z7 TIL a Croatian general held off an Ottoman army of 150,000 soldiers, with 800 Croat soldiers. Thus saving Vienna.