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TIL Hitler accidentally bombed his nephew’s house in Liverpool, so the nephew moved to the United States to fight with the Allies.

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N7OXJ TIL of the Lighthouse of Maracaibo; a weather system appearing in Venezuela approximately half the year which results in near-continuous lightning for ten hours a day.
wGp6 TIL that chemical technician Karen Silkwood, who after exposing numerous safety and ethics violations by the Kerr-McGee energy company, died in a mysterious car accident on her way to meet with a New York Times journalist.
QJ4pX TIL That Len Bias' death was reported in the media as a crack overdose. Members of the US government used the news to promote the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 including the 100:1 ratio of crack sentencing. Len Bias actually died of a cocaine overdose, and there is no evidence of him ever using crack.
wL0eM TIL that Benjamin Franklin wrote an essay "Fart Proudly" which suggested scientists develop a drug to render farts "not only inoffensive, but agreeable as Perfumes"
mx0Gv TIL the ‘farmer and his wife’ in the painting American Gothic actually represent a farmer and his daughter