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TIL Hugo Boss founded his company in 1924, ten years later advertising that he had been a “supplier for National Socialist uniforms since 1924”, eventually used POW’s and forced laborers for mass production.

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rRNl4 TIL The brightest things in the universe are quasars, which can be 429 trillion times brighter than our sun.
nWEpB TIL of the competitive sport of Hobby Horsing. Competitors compete in events such as Show Jumping, Dressage, Freestyle and Time trials.
bG6a TIL that a NASA astronaut waited 19 years to fly in space. Don Lind was selected in 1966 but was chosen for canceled missions, or as backup for missions; he said, “I was backing up two of the most depressingly healthy people you can imagine.” Lind finally flew on the space shuttle in 1985.
NX6re TIL that the Boiling Frog Apologue (A frog will jump out of boiling water but not tepid water being graddually heated) is based on a 19th century experiment on dead frogs. Living frogs will jump out of water that becomes too hot, and immediately die if placed in boiling water.
ndR9 TIL Leonard Nimoy’s funeral was free of Westboro baptist church protesters because they couldn’t figure out the location