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TIL actor Jim Carrey wrote a fictitious autobiography that includes Chinese conspiracies, faking versions of celebrities, hallucinogenic dialogues, battling aliens with Gwyneth Paltrow and dressing up before going to bed as he’s afraid of selfies taken at the morgue if he dies in his sleep.

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DQarV TIL that the younger brother of Hermann Göring, Albert, was anti-Nazi and spent World War 2 defying the regime by helping Jews escape and assisting in sabotage efforts. He later was found innocent at the Nuremburg trials. He died with little to no recognition for his efforts during the war.
5DMr TIL African American soldiers in World War I served under the French military because white American soldiers refused to perform with them. Many African Americans moved to France after the war because they were treated better in that country.
9wO1X TIL that smells can pass through liquid, which is why sharks can detect blood. The speed at which smells travel underwater is boosted by water currents, tides, and various movements, not just diffusion alone.
lB5B TIL a can of Coke will sink in water but Diet Coke will float
5lB8 til in 2005, Denver took people’s dogs and euthanized them if them they resembled a pit bull