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TIL that Adolf Hitler's remains were exhumed in the 1970s and incinerated. The ashes were flushed into the city's sewage system

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woZN1 TIL NASA didn't expect Skylab to deorbit until the early 80s, and made plans to revisit the space station with the shuttle, boost it to a higher orbit, and expand it through the decade. Atmospheric drag from increased solar activity in the late 70s brought it down sooner than anticipated.
e8p4 TIL at the 1912 Olympics, a marathon runner quit and went home to Japan without telling officials and was considered a missing person in Sweden for 50 years. In 1966, he was invited to complete the marathon. His time: 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.379 seconds.
16ndX TIL factories use radioisotopic gauges to measure the amount of air that is whipped into ice cream and how much soda is poured into a bottle.
wg57 TIL that Shakespeare intentionally made grammatical errors to heighten the attention of his audiences before key points in his plays - the technique is called ‘functional shift’ and the use of it keeps the brain alive!
JYpBB TIL that Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" was banned in Ireland.