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TIL Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Nixon, Kissinger and Tito have all been nominated for a Nobel peace prize

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MvYW TIL that Duck Hunt works by flashing the screen black when you shoot, except where there are ducks, and a photodiode in the barrel of the gun either picks up the lit area where the ducks are, or it doesn’t, which determines whether your shot hit or missed.
698NY TIL US Congressman Manuel Herrick was deemed insane after trying to rob a train and thought he was the son of god earning him the nickname Okie Jesus Congressman
WknmY TIL of the "national bathtub", a mass execution during the French Revolution when thousands of suspected royalists were drowned in the river Loire. At first, the perpetrators carried the drownings at night to avoid suspicion, but the dozen of floating bodies in the following days gave them away.
LQBk9 TIL that humans can produce light through bioluminescence, but it's usually too faint for our eyes to detect.
woxe1 TIL that Microwaves generate heat, (not as popularly conceived (having a resonant frequency similar to water)), but instead, by matter doing it's best to magnetize itself.