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TIL Adolf Hitler kept a life-sized portrait of Henry Ford next to his desk

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Q8Nd TIL the average man ejaculates 14 gallons (63.6 L) of semen in their lifetime. That’s enough to fill the tank of a small car!
vB6r TIL Evelyn McHale is referred to as the “Most Beautiful Suicide”. On April 30, 1947 she jumped from the observation deck of the Empire State building and fell 86 floors onto the United Nations Assembly Cadillac. The picture was taken by a photography student 4 minutes after the crash.
GAl8N TIL Almost every culture on Earth has a similar myth about the Pleiades star cluster, and it's probably because that myth is 100,000 years old, when there were 7, not 6, stars visible to the naked eye.
b9Mw0 TIL The Placebo Effect doesn’t really have clinical significance when you account for the myriad of variables present in clinical trials. Placebos do about as good as “no treatment arms” in most studies with objective criteria.
b6XoQ TIL of the Testament of Peter the Great, a fabricated document alleged to reflect Russian plans for world domination throughout the 18th and 19th centuries