› added 11 years ago

103

TIL Adolf Hitler had a Jewish doctor that didn’t charge the Hitler family money during their finical hardship. During the Holocaust, Hitler labelled the doctor, Eduard Bloch, a ‘noble Jew’ and made sure that no harm came to the doctor.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

X44R TIL the title for the movie “October Sky” is an anagram of the Homer Hickam book “Rocket Boys”
nWX4r TIL that eating raw shiitake mushrooms can cause an itchy rash that lasts for weeks., called shiitake flagellate dermatitis.
pLZb TIL in 2010 an MI6 spy was found dead, his naked body inside a padlocked bag in his flat in London. The Metropolitan Police concluded that he had accidentally locked himself in the bag and died as a result.
AJp4 TIL the St. Patrick’s Day parade has been held every year in New York since 1762, in Boston since 1737, and in Dublin Ireland since 1995.
AmQg TIL the term ‘footage’ comes from films being measured in feet when being edited in the early days of film making.