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TIL that five days after Hitler committed suicide, German and American troops fought side by side to defend Itter Castle against Himmler’s SS.

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oBL4Y TIL that there’s a city in New Mexico named ‘Truth or Consequences’, the city chose to rename itself after a radio show contest in 1950.
N71xe TIL about Baun the Cat, a cat in Russian fairy tales that has a voice that can cure any sickness. The cat mostly uses its voice to make people sleep in order to eat them though. In stories, the only way to defeat this cat was to wear an iron helmet to block its voice.
4XYK5 TIL that in England prior to the mid-17th Century, Christmas was a twelve-day festival, and included the burning of the Yule log and playing traditional games. The Comwellian Revolt abolished Christmas, and the Industrial Revolution eroded the customs in communities which tried to hold onto them.
QNMJd TIL of Jonathan Wild, In 18th century London he was a thief-taker, a private individual hired to capture criminals. However he used this status to take out rivals to run his own criminal gang. He was so trusted he even got the reward for turning in a thieve from £40 to £140
yVPo8 TIL about "Rose's Law", which is the "Moore's Law of Moore's Law" for quantum computation. It states that the quantity of qubits in a quantum computer doubles every 1.5-2 years. However, this results in exponential exponential growth of computing power.