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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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5A7r TIL Marvel created a superhero who wears a hearing aid after they learned of a boy who refused to wear one because “superheroes don’t wear hearing aids”
8eEKK TIL The term CARE package is a registered trademark and originally referred to aid sent to Europe after WW2 by the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe
60dl TIL a massive solar flare missed the Earth by nine days on July 23rd 2012. Estimated cost of damage was $2.7 trillion dollars, and estimated recovery time was four to ten years.
DQdbv TIL of the 2010 Sauna World Championship, in which two competitors needed rescuing from a 230°F sauna due to receiving burns to their skin and airways, resulting in the death of one of the competitors (also aided by his use of steroids and numbing agents to help him last longer in the sauna.
yxbw TIL there is a cognitive bias called The IKEA effect. People put a higher value on things they have made themselves.