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TIL John Cleese refused a knighthood honor as he said the naming of a species of Wooly lemur (Avahi cleesei) was a greater honor.

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1aJlr TIL of the White Rose which was a non-violent Nazi resistance group made of college students and a professor. It started by releasing pamphlets against the Nazi Party and ended with the execution of 6 students and the professor.
MeYm0 TIL that Adolf Hitler believed that he was sexually attractive to women and wished to exploit this for political gain by remaining single, as he felt marriage would decrease his appeal. The German people were unaware of Hitler & Eva Braun's relationship until after the war
5aRB TIL: Weird Al Yankovic was going to parody Paul McCartney’s “Live and Let Die” with “Chicken Pot Pie” but McCartney denied his request due to being a vegetarian.
EgJ97 TIL marshmallows are a 4000 year old food beginning in ancient Egypt AND originally they were made from the sap of a mallow plant…that grows in marshes…
5VrXp TIL that the original version of the novel “The Neverending Story” was printed in two colors: Red ink for events in the real world, green for events in Fantasia. One reviewer called it “a good buy… unless you suffer from red/green colour blindness.”