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TIL Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Price in 1939
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TIL Isaac Hayes, one of the only famous black Scientologists, approached Scientology leader David Miscavige and asked why the religion wasn’t doing more to court black Americans. So Miscavige reached out to the Nation of Islam, and by 2010, they began promoting the benefits of Scientology.
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TIL the longest running science experiment in the world is in Australia, where they have been watching asphalt slowly drip through a funnel since 1927
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TIL in the 2000 paralympics, the Spanish team in basketball-ID consisted of fully functional semi-pros. They won gold by a landslide but where discovered because one of the players was an undercover journalist investigating fraud comitted by the president of the Spanish Disabled Sports Federation.
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TIL in 2013, a pig in Australia stole 18 beers from a campsite, got drunk, and then tried to fight a cow.
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TIL Disney's "The Three Caballeros" was part of an American propaganda program in the 1940s to foster better relations between the US and Latin America, under FDR's "Good Neighbor Policy".