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TIL that the sons of Hitler’s nephew who fought for the US all agreed that they would never marry or have children in order to kill Hitler’s bloodline.

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kvn7 TIL there was a pirate named Black Caesar, he was an African tribal war chieftain, enslaved and escaped. He later went on to build a powerful piracy ring, where he kept a harem of over 100 women, and later served as a chief lieutenant on Blackbeard’s ship “Queen Anne’s Revenge”
6XYl TIL if you tie a plastic bag around leaves on a tree you’ll get enough drinkable water to keep you from dehydration
X0XlX TIL that the least densely populated county in the US east of the Mississippi River is Hamilton County, NY with 3 people/sq mi (1.2/km2).
XEDnr TIL the sea route that Titanic sunk on should have been populated by many other ships, which could have saved victims of the sinking, however, ships transferred their coal to Titanic in port so she could make the date of her voyage, resulting in the area being virtually isolated when Titanic sunk.
neEK9 TIL the reason why the majority of police uniforms in the U.S. are blue is a result of the civil war. After the war had ended, there was a surplus of blue uniforms which got repurposed for police officers. The color became associated with policing.