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TIL Hitler's niece mysteriously died in his Munich apartment in 1931

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JYnVQ TIL Stanford University was founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane, in memory of their only child, Leland Jr., who died of typhoid fever at 15. After his 1884 death, the Stanfords determined that they would use their wealth to do something for “other people’s” children
wLpMo TIL the moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination
JYexl TIL that there are parts of the US in which adult illiteracy is over 30%
BgB5D TIL that in Italy until 1981, if you caught your daughter or sister having extra-marital sex and killed them, the sentence was just 3-7 years of prison.
J1pAB TIL that Inyo County, California has the 48 US states' highest point (Mount Whitney), lowest point in the US (Badwater Basin, Death Valley), and world's hottest place (Furnace Creek, Death Valley).