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TIL American news magazine TIME named Adolph Hitler Man of the Year in 1938

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R5lLw TIL that Robert Fulton's steamship was named North River Steamboat, and that the name it's popularly called today, Clermont, was due to an error in a biography of Fulton. No accounts of the vessel being called Clermont during Fulton's lifetime have been found.
yeAp TIL Crows can recognize individual human faces, and will warn/teach other crows of specific individuals they find threatning.
awjVZ TIL that gif is pronounced as "jif" and not as gif as confirmed by the creator of the gif
WwGA TIL that time runs approximately 0.0000000014 percent slower on the Iss than on earth - after 6 months in the ISS, an astronaut will have aged 0.007 less than someone who had spent 6 months on earth, all due to time dilation.
yoee TIL the first person of African-American descent to become Governor of a US State was a Louisiana Republican. His Mother was a former slave and his Father was his Mother’s former master.