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TIL: Katrin Himmler, grandniece of SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, has NOT refused to have children to end her great-uncle’s bloodline. She believes the idea of good or evil being passed through bloodlines is itself a reflection of Nazi ideology.

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J1DEm TIL Sing Sing Prison is located 30 miles up the Hudson River from New York city. This is where the expression "getting sent up the river" comes from.
6nRZ TIL Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) required “Bigfoot Protection” while filming the Endor scenes in ROTJ incase he was mistaken by a hunter.
wLoBJ TIL Tom Cruise had Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, Leah Remini and others over at his house and tried to play hide-and-seek with them, going so far as to run off into 3 acres of land
rxOw TIL of Carl Fisher who built a fortune in automobile headlights, then went on to found the first auto dealership, the first transcontinental road, the Indianapolis speedway, and the town of Miami Beach. He lost most of his fortune in the Great Depression and was largely forgotten by history.
V40Z TIL a 1913 survey of US children working under difficult conditions in factories found that 412 out of 500 would rather work in sweatshops than the “monotony, humiliation, and cruelty” of school.