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TIL Hitlers nephew William Patrick Hitler fled Germany 1939 to join the U.S. Army and fight his uncle, later recieving the “Purple Heart”

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NXyke TIL slavery was not abolished in Ethiopia until 1942
JKJQ TIL that a book claiming that sunscreen, not the sun, is the number one cause of skin cancer, and that AIDS is “one of the greatest hoaxes and deceptions ever perpetrated on the American public” was #1 on the New York Times best-seller list and sold 5 million copies in the U.S.
NXBge TIL from house cats to elephants, most large mammals take about 21 seconds to pee.
ADV6d TIL that people actually believe that the Nazis went to the coldest and most inaccessible place on the planet to hunt whales just before WW2 because they needed more fat for their population...
ly1V TIL Plans were in place to sever all communication w/ Astronauts on the moon if they had been stranded by a technical failure.