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TIL there is a neural condition called witzelsucht that causes people to speak in puns!

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KPYR TIL that due to the inclusion of a leap day and two leap seconds, 1972 is the longest year in history.
eL66 TIL McDonald’s tried to sue a man legally named Ronald McDonald for running his family restaurant by the same name in 1956. The real Ronald won.
nW8WP TIL of the spider genus Hotwheels, named after the Hot Wheels toy line. There is only one species in the genus and has only been found in China.
QR7p TIL that Hitler ordered for Oxford not to be bombed as he planned for it to be the capital of his new Kingdom.
MebM7 TIL of Artur Fischer, a German soldier who survived Stalingrad on the last plane out. After the war, he went on to invent many ubiquitous items such as the synchronized camera flash and the plastic wall anchor, and held over 1100 patents before dying at age 96.