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TIL Adolf Hitler has a Bacon number of 3, connected by Leni Riefenstahl and Caitlyn Jenner (among other paths) — just one more than Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson.

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GYA47 TIL king Gustav III of Sweden commuted the death sentences of a set of twins to life imprisonment if one drank 3 pots of coffee and the other drank 3 pots of tea to test the effects of the newly introduced coffee.
k9Lg TIL that Stephen King has made large charitable donations without announcing them because he was “raised firmly to believe that if you give away money and you make a big deal of it so that everybody sees it, that’s hubris. (…) you’re not supposed to make a big deal about it.”
eXE5 TIL Hitlers nephew William Patrick Hitler fled Germany 1939 to join the U.S. Army and fight his uncle, later recieving the “Purple Heart”
awDo0 TIL that for $50,000 USD, you can harvest a dog's DNA to create a genetically identical embryo, aka Cloning.
ANxew TIL: That two days before the outbreak of WWII, the BBC was taken off air; the final broadcast being the Mickey Mouse cartoon, "Mickey's Gala Premier". BBC Television returned at 3pm on 7th June 1946 and twenty minutes later, aired the same Mickey Mouse cartoon that they had broadcast in 1939.