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TIL Afolf Hitler's father was born Alois Schickelgruber, and his biological father is unknown. He convinced authorities to make his stepfather Johann Hiedler his legal father, and change his last name to Hiedler. For unknown reasons, authorities misspelled his last name as Hitler

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