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TIL that Hitler and Göring already had lists of communists to be arrested long before the 1933 Reichstag fire.

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10YP TIL there is a fine dining restaurant located inside a gas station in Texas. Sometime around 2003, Nigerian born Franson Nwaeze was denied a bank loan to open a restaurant. Undeterred, Franson applied for a loan to open a gas station instead, which the bank approved. The result: Chef Point.
gWp9 TIL: There was a movement of people in the late 1800’s called the “anarchists”; that effectively changed American labor policy by fighting injustice with extreme violence, rather than sitting in front of Wall Street.
0dJ7L TIL Between 1945 and 1965, the number of people under British rule outside the UK itself fell from 700 million to five million.
xEpw TIL In the late 1990s, Dr. Ralph Walden peer reviewed 165 studies related to the safety of aspartame. 74 were funded corporations tied to aspartame. The other 91 were independent. ALL of the research that had financial ties to aspartame deemed it safe. The remaining 92% disagreed.
PGdL TIL that, as of the 2016 playoffs, no Vermont high school graduate has ever played in the NBA.