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TIL Sony has a patent on making viewers yell product names out loud to end TV ads

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OGKwY TIL it took 5 attempts over 7 years for Hitler to be granted German citizenship, succeeding in 1932 before his 1933 appointment as Chancellor
An77 TIL The Nazis developed an experimental drug cocktail called D-IX in which the Nazi doctors found that equipment-laden test subjects who had taken the drug could march 55 miles without resting.
7r4VO TIL that No Kum-Sok, the first pilot to defect with an operational aircraft, received a $100,000 reward from Operation Moolah in 1953. He landed the wrong way on the runway: had he tried to land in the right direction, he would have been spotted and shot down.
PYmNe TIL In the song "Come and get your love" by Redbone, they're not singing "Hey!" in the chorus, but actually "Hail!".
oRNAK TIL the Black Death was partially caused by a mass execution of cats due to supposed association with the Devil, allowing rats and their fleas to rapidly spread.