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TIL Hitler was a vegetarian and used gruesome descriptions of animal suffering at the dinner table to try to dissuade his colleagues from eating meat

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0dN0y TIL that WS Simkins, the man who is credited with firing the first shot in the US Civil War, also had a severe foot fetish and went on to fund a five-year expedition to find the perfect foot, which ended in failure.
9wkZX TIL that less than 1% of nuns in the US are under 40 and the average sister is 80 years old.
PYMOL TIL that airport code for Cheadle Airport in Canada is TIL
pJmO TIL Congress Passed a Law Preventing Congress From Insider Trading After Public Outrage then Quietly Rolled Back the Rules For Themselves with the President Signing It!
9YA4D TIL that a Carl's Jr. in Santa Rosa, California, untouched by surrounding wildfires, caught fire when staff made 165 hamburgers for first responders.