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TIL it took 5 attempts over 7 years for Hitler to be granted German citizenship, succeeding in 1932 before his 1933 appointment as Chancellor

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j7bX TIL Jake Lloyd (Young Anakin from the Phantom Menace) said that Star Wars destroyed his life. He was constantly hounded and harrassed because people hated the character he played so much.
nLAo TIL that an estimated that 90 percent of the body’s serotonin is made in the digestive tract
1rmr TIL that a 23 year old French man impersonated a missing sixteen year old Texas boy and lived with the boy’s family for over four months.
XEODQ Children have energy levels greater than endurance athletes.
N7dOE TIL the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor were all demonstrated for the first time in what is the called the “mother of all demos” back in 1968