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TIL: A teen offered seven Atari games, three dollar bills, and $2.30 in nickels and dimes to an undercover investigator posing as a hitman to take out a “romantic rival”

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XEmj6 TIL that Nazi leaders were hard supporters of animal rights. 90% of the actual animal laws in Germany come from the laws that the Nazi’s passed.
69G0J TIL Hitler claimed he didn’t have any problem with Jews until later in life when he visited Vienna (though his childhood friends dispute this)
a8Yw9 TIL Adult skeletons are replaced every 10 years
7rPx TIL Joe Strummer (frontman of The Clash) was pressured by his manager to go into hiding in France as a publicity stunt because their Scottish leg of the tour was selling slowly. Joe Strummer obliged but instead he “dicked around” in France and ran the Paris Marathon in April 1982.
R5v77 TIL about the "de Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle" which was expected to become the US' standard reconnaissance machine. Unveiled in 1954, it required the unlucky user to stand on a platform above four whirling blades, which he then steered by tilting his bodyweight in the direction he wished to move.