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TIL that when Adolf Hitler joined the DAP, the predecessor of the Nazi Party, he was member number 555. However, he was only the fifty-fifth member of the party as they started counting membership at 500 to give the impression they were a much larger party.

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yQMNe TIL of Setara Hussainzada, the first woman to ever sing in a TV program in Afghanistan. She received numerous death threads and has been force to live in exile.
m1jwM TIL twice the amount of time has passed between the release of Back to the Future and today (39yrs) as between Back to the Future and the Vietnam War protests with Dr. MLK, Jr., Ginsberg, and hippies (18yrs).
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