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TIL: That Hitler was lazy and incompetent and that his government was a clown show

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lBKG TIL a civilian jet airliner was shot down by a United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes on 3 July 1988 and killed 290 people including 66 children and 16 crew members.
E11JX TIL that Lucifer, which means bringer of light or refers to the planet Venus, was not equated with Satan in the Bible but in Paradise Lost by Milton.
bgK9 TIL that more than 70% of marriages in Ethiopia are by abduction, and in some areas, it’s closer to 80%.
W7RMA TIL in the aftermath of the 1912 Regina Cyclone, where a tornado touched down in Regina, Saskatchewan, killing 28 people, a touring theatrical troupe who'd stopped there helped rebuild after the event, one of whom was a young actor named Boris Karloff.
adn0 TIL that while watching a Flip or Flop marathon, a fan and RN reached out to the shows producers telling them that host, Tarek El Moussa, had a nodule on his neck he needed checked out. It turned out to be thyroid cancer and El Moussa was able to get it removed.