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TIL Hitler killed his 4 year old German Shepherd because he feared that the Russians would capture and torture her.

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rLyW TIL Apollo 13 was filmed using zero-g training planes to simulate weightlessness instead of wires and CGI
x7mo TIL J.J. Thomson won the Nobel in Physics (1906) when he showed electrons were particles. His son won it in 1937 for showing that electrons are waves.
dDAEB TIL that at its peak, GEOS (Commodore 64 productivity software resembling Windows/Office and MacOS) was the third-most-popular microcomputer operating system in the world in terms of units shipped, trailing only MS-DOS and Mac OS
XEbRR TIL the original reason why umbrella handles are curved is to make it easier for servants to hold the umbrella at an angle to shield their employer
AN7E4 TIL when the 1991 Doors biopic was in development, John Travolta was one of the top picks to play Jim Morrison. Singer Bebe Buell recalled how she witnessed Travolta’s “unofficial” audition, and called it “mindblowing” how Travolta channeled Jim. The role later went to Val Kilmer.