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TIL Infant simulator programs in high schools, intended to discourage teenage pregnancies, actually backfired.

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lY5A TIL In 1924, German shoemaker Adolf Dassler let his brother, Rudolf, join his sports shoemaking company. During WWII, they grew to hate each other and in 1948, Rudolf started his own company across town. Adolf, aka Adi, changed his company’s name to Adidas; Rudolf started Puma.
XEPeR TIL, Hitler's brother worked in a hotel in Dublin and the company that did the laundry service was called swaztika laundry, he also had a child with a Dublin woman and the child was called William paddy Hitler
1aRVP TIL that the extinct Carolina parakeet may have become poisonous from eating toxic seeds, because cats were noted to die after eating the birds
kJ61e Today I learned that human bites have the potential to become extremely dangerous, due to all of the bacteria in our mouths and the strength of our jaws
5V1LB TIL the highest wind speeds ever recorded were from the Tornado that struck Oklahoma on May 3rd, 1999. Measurements put the speed at about 301 ± 20 miles per hour.