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TIL Self-Defense from a Tutorial Created in 1933

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V7eZ TIL Sir Hugh Beaver, of the Guinness Breweries, got into an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe. There was no book in the world with which to settle arguments about records and questions debated nightly in pubs throughout Ireland. Guinness World Records was born.
E1j07 TIL, during World War II, Soviet physicists Anatoly Alexandrov & Igor Kurchatov created the LPTI system, which helps in demagnetizing ships to protect them from German naval mines. By the end of 1941, the system was successfully used by Soviet Navy in the Baltic Sea and Black Sea naval campaigns.
5VVWR TIL Down Syndrome has a strong association with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). In one study of 3.9 million children, 2.8% of those with Down Syndrome developed AML, compared with 0.05% of other children.
p8kap TIL that Adolf Hitler had a nephew named William Patrick Hitler, who was born in the UK in 1911. He tried blackmailing the Fuhrer, and later immigrated to the US in 1939. He was drafted into the USN in 1944, and after the war, lived quietly in Long Island and passed away in 1987.
6JPQ TIL The creamy chocolate part inside a Ferrero Rocher is actually Nutella.