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TIL oranges aren't naturally occuring, and the first ones weren't even orange

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D1r0e TIL Adolf Hitler was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize
7n4r TIL of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, a group that “supports human extinction primarily because… it would prevent environmental degradation.”
gMJwA TIL that when the British monarchy was restored in 1660 under Charles II, the body of Oliver Cromwell was dug up, hanged in chains and beheaded as a posthumous execution for the crime of signing Charles I's death warrant. His head was then owned by various people till its burial in 1960.
DkEe TIL that scientists successfully connected a paralyzed patient’s brain to a tablet who was able to type and surf the Internet
J7m8 TIL London has a secret, 2nd underground rail network