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TIL Hitler and Nazi officials outlawed animal cruelty including the boiling of live lobsters.

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O9yY TIL that the London Underground has its own implementation of the KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery System), where the platforms are actually uphill from the surrounding track, so that the Kinetic Energy is turned into Gravitational Potential Energy, and recovered when the train leaves the station.
6EraW TIL: The codename for Direct X was "Project Manhattan" in order to showcase the effort from Microsoft to displace the Japanese gaming industry at the time.
woPRP TIL Dora the Explorer speaks 33 different languages depending on which country you live in and which 2nd language is dominant.
ekoE TIL J.R.R. Tolkien opposed holding Catholic mass in English - to the extent that he loudly responded in Latin whenever priests spoke the liturgy in English.
b9mY7 TIL in 2013, Australian blogger Belle Gibson claimed to have beaten brain cancer using 'natural remedies' — selling a cookbook to cancer patients with all her 'secrets'. It was later revealed she never even had cancer, and was fined $410,000 by the Australian government for her deceptive practices.