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TIL that Hitler’s nephew joined the US Navy in WW2 and fought against Hitler

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LkKmZ TIL: Trace Labs - Hackers Find Missing People for Fun. These people work for free. And they look for missing people... just for fun. For them it's like a hobby or even a GAME. In fact, this non-profit organization holds competitions to collect information to solve cases on missing persons.
Aj4g TIL Lake Toba is the largest volcanic eruption to have happened in the last 25 million years, and was believed to have killed most of the human race at the time, causing a population bottleneck which affects genetic diversity to this day.
NNOe TIL that a Pineapple is actually a bunch of small berries fused together into a single mass
8D0P TIL Most of the radio broadcasts that Robin Williams delivered in the movie ‘Good Morning Vietnam’ were improvised by him.
Elnd TIL of a NASA employee, George Aldrich, whose job is to sniff things to check if they have an unpleasant smell before they can be flown to space.