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TIL The creator of Attack on Titan was inspired to create the Titans after seeing a drunk customer at a cafe. He was inspired by the lack of the ability to communicate even though the person was of the same species. He decided the most familiar and scary animal in the world is actually the human.

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boKN TIL that, until it was forcibly suppressed during WWI, German was the second most widely spoken language in the USA, with many local governments, schools, and newspapers operating in German.
MRPb TIL there are no vitamins with letters F-J because those letters were used for vitamins that were “reclassified over time, discarded as false leads, or renamed because of their relationship to vitamin B, which became a complex of vitamins.”
QNZke TIL of Hannie Schaft, a Dutch resistance fighter known as "the girl with the red hair" during WWII. She committed assassinations and sabotage but refused to kidnap a Nazi official's children. During her execution, she was shot and injured, challenging her killers by saying, "I shoot better."
5Ved8 TIL about the Goiânia accident, the worst nuclear disaster in Latin America’s history. A mysterious canister containing blue powder was found in a junkyard and passed through a family, resulting in 249 severely contaminated people and 4 deaths, one being a 6 year old girl.
b6O4N TIL about the Angola Prison Rodeo, the longest-serving prison rodeo in the U.S. One event is “convict poker,” where a bull is released with the sole purpose of unseating poker players, and the players must resist the urge to run away in order to win.