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TIL automobile industrialist Henry Ford was admired by Adolf Hitler for promoting anti-Semitic content, including The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, through his newspaper The Dearborn Independent, and the book The International Jew.

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Z4e4 TIL that averaging 57mbps, Romania is the only country where downloading a DVD is faster than a DVD
b9KE7 TIL that the first public demonstration of a one-way videophone occurred on April 7, 1927, between Herbert Hoover (then U.S. secretary of commerce) in Washington, D.C., and officials of AT&T in New York City. This was followed by the first demonstration of a two-way videophone, on April 9, 1930.
dDNLQ TIL that although Charles Dawson was implicated after his death for the Piltdown hoax involving fabricating human remains, he may have been involved in as many as 38 forgeries. These included falsifying Roman artifacts by casting them in iron, creating and planting fossils, and forging stone stools.
W1OY TIL India was formerly an island, but crashed into Tibet 40 million years ago. The impact created the Himalayas, which are still being pushed up by 2cm each year
VBdG TIL the Japanese Warlord Date Masamune sent an embassy to Spain and Rome. Two days after his ambassador returned and gave his report, Date Masamune, who had previously been tolerant of Christianity, banned it.