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TIL contemporary Germans referred to Hitler’s style of mustache as a “snot brake.”

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Z8QAR TIL that French Guiana is legally part of France, and not a separate country, in a similar way to Hawaii being legally part of the USA. Technically all maps of France should probably have a window with French Guiana in the corner, the way Hawaii usually appears on maps of the USA.
PYbew TIL of Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights leader and advisor to MLK who singlehandedly shaped his non-violent protest methods. He was forced to resign to protect the movement when a congressman threatened to fabricate a story of an affair between him and King to dissuade protests in his district.
rRvdx TIL In the movie white Christmas, Rosemary Clooney sang both parts of all the songs in the movie. Vera Ella didn’t sing at all.
e0y6E TIL that Cory Ondrejka, former Vice President of Engineering at Facebook, was the game director of Road Rash 64.
bDN0 TIL NASA had an accident while testing spacesuits for the Apollo moon missions, and caught it on camera. The test subject was accidentally depressurized while in a vacuum chamber, and lost consciousness and experienced his own spit boiling. The team took nearly a minute to save him from the chamber.