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TIL when three brothers discovered they were descended from Adolf Hitler's family, they all made a pact to never have children in order to end the Hitler bloodline.

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m1jBE TIL of Robert Kearns who invented the Intermittent Windshield Wiper System only to have his invention stolen by the Big 3 auto manufacturers. He then sued and won.
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