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TIL Hitler had a big, bushy mustache until he spent a winter with his sister who forced him to shave it off

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M7Mra TIL about Tuviah Friedman, a Nazi Hunter who contributed to the capture of Adolf Eichmann in 1960.
5MbQ TIL boxer Sugar Ray Robinson backed out of his welterweight fight because he had a vision he’d kill his opponent, Jimmy Doyle. After being convinced by a priest and minister to fight, Robinson killed his opponent due to head injuries.
MeJjK TIL in 1898 The Meister Print ( the Meister Footprint) was found it refers to two trilobites in slate that appeared to be crushed in a human shoe print in a 500million years old strata near Antelope springs,Utah. Was considered a evidence against evolution but was discarded by paleontologists.
dD8A8 TIL It takes about 3 million presses to wear out a button on an Xbox controller
eJvJ TIL when Australia abolished their inheritance tax in 1979, a disproportionate number of parents died in the week immediately after the abolition went into effect, suggesting that many of their heirs were doing everything to keep them alive just long enough for the inheritance tax to expire.