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TIL that Henry Ford loved Hitler and received the Nazi regime’s highest medal for a foreigner

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yQx5e TIL Filet-O-Fish sandwiches are advertised as both a breakfast and a lunch item at McDonald’s restaurants in Japan.
6MQY TIL the Soviet Union and the United States were originally in talks to go to the moon together during the Cold War. Nikita Khruschev was poised to accept the plan but then President Kennedy was assassinated. The Soviets did not trust Vice President Johnson, so Khruschev rejected the plan.
4Xw9R TIL: It’s impossible to develop schizophrenia if you are born blind, but if you become blind later in life your chances of developing schizophrenia are increased
5YxxP TIL that in medieval times, there was a real fear that some people would kill holy men and women to sell off their body parts as relics. Guards even had had to watch over mortally ill holy men and women to prevent their body parts being sold soon as they died.
8aWrG TIL a new blood test can detect 50 different types of cancer