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TIL in 1942, a Finnish engineer Thor Damen secretly recorded 11 minutes of a conversation between Adolf Hitler and Finnish Defence Chief Gustaf Mannerheim. It is the only known recording of Hitler’s normal voice.

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gr0JD TIL in 2016, a man deleted his open-source Javascript package, which consisted of only 11 lines of code. Because this packaged turned out to be a dependency on major software projects, the deletion caused service disruptions across the internet.
rN5yW TIL Osama Bin Laden sent a letter to America in 2002 citing his reasons for the 9/11 attacks, ciriticzing the country and giving them suggestions.
a8JkZ TIL That oxygen turns into a liquid when frozen, at ‑297 degrees F (‑183 C). This liquification compresses it and allows it to fit in a smaller, lighter tank.
OoML6 TIL 'Amor fati' describes an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary, in that they are among the facts of one's life and existence, so they are always necessarily there whether one likes them or not.
m7PO TIL when Vermont adopted the Latin motto “Stella quarta decima fulgeat,” some locals complained that the state was honoring Mexicans and other Latinos.