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TIL Joseph Goebbels killed 6 of his own children, before committing suicide

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X07vE TIL about anterograde amnesia. People with this condition completely forget very recent events, yet most of them can learn and retain new skills - even though they forget every day that they had learned those skills yesterday.
KkJJ TIL: Russian airline Aeroflot has bred their own line of jackal-dog hybrids for bomb-sniffing, there are only 40 in existence all owned by Aeroflot
O8dg TIL in the 1960s an Indo-American expedition tried to place a nuclear-powered monitoring device on a peak in the Himalayas, but it was lost in an avalanche. 5 kilograms of plutonium remain unaccounted for, somewhere near the source of the Ganges River.
DQpXv TIL Napoleon III was titled "Prince-President" from 1848 to 1852, when he became Emperor
4gY5 TIL that during filming of Star Wars: Episode I, Ewan McGregor kept imitating the noise of his lightsaber during the fights even though George Lucas explained many times that this would be added in by the special effects people later on. Ewan said “I keep getting carried away”.