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TIL that shortly after assuming power, Hitler used the burning of the German Parliment, the Reichstag building, to declare a national emergency crisis, consolidate power, and begin taking away civil liberties.

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k5Pe TIL that the president of the World Chess Federation believes that chess was invented by aliens
YQGW TIL beneath the streets of LA is a complex network of pedestrian tunnels that stretch several blocks. They’ve been used for secret transportation of mobsters, murderers and more than a billion dollars in cash; designated as fallout shelters and homeless shelters and used as backdrops for movies.
9YMdm TIL that when actor, Sir Christopher Lee, was just a teenager, he witnessed the guillotine execution of serial killer, Eugen Weidmann
KOMxB TIL Mike Tyson offered a zoo attendant $10,000 to let him fight a gorilla
OPZ4 TIL there is a 2400 year old giant “honey mushroom” in Oregon, covering 2200 acres, slowly killing off the trees in the forest. It is the largest living organism on the planet.