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TIL "(They Long to Be) Close to You" by The Carpenters is a cover

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MelQb TIL Alexandre Dumas was a notable cook and gourmand during his lifetime. He completed a 1150 page culinary encyclopedia that was published 3 years after his death.
GOV7 TIL that in WW2 English spies planned to make Hitler less aggressive by feeding him oestrogen, the female sex hormone. It would go unnoticed by his food testers because it was slow and subtle. The English spies were already close enough to Hitler to execute the plan, but it never went through.
Lk8Xd TIL Wernher Von Braun wasn't just a member of the Nazi Party, he was an SS Sturmbannführer (Major). Thousands of prisoners died excavating his underground rocket factory, Kohnstein, to keep production safe from allied bombing. The US Army later kept these crimes against humanity classified.
7r0KP TIL There is a theory that Earth was completely frozen over in a phenomenon known as "Snowball Earth" between 700 million and 600 million years ago.
LQXYm TIL air conditioning enabled mass American migrations to the south and help created summer blockbusters