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TIL Karl Marx’s grave has an entry fee

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dD607 TIL people with severe aphasia can still do algebra
65LJ TIL that during the film The Big Lebowski, the Dude consumes 12 drinks and smokes 5 joints. There is an entire community of people dedicated to watching the movie and mimicking the consumption of the exact same menu of food, alcohol and drugs. The Dude abides.
e0GvD TIL that lacking access to saltwater or salt deposits, the remote Apatani tribe of Northeast India have made use of a homemade salt substitute called tapyo, It is made from shrubs and ash.
KOB49 TIL that the Walther PPK, the firearm famously used by James Bond, was the same used by Adolf Hitler to commit suicide
N7bjb TIL Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Joseph Stalin were all nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, with Hitler being nominated in 1939, Mussolini in 1935 and Stalin in both 1945 & 1948.