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TIL That some countries held periods of mourning and offered official condolences over the death of Hitler!

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GDA1 TIL that radiotrophic fungi exist which can transform gamma radiation into chemical energy. They were found inside the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
4XX66 TIL: Rifle, Colorado has a restaurant named Shooters where the entire wait staff openly carries firearms.
9Yobr TIL Georgia has been described as "the best corruption-buster in the world." The country has fought post-Soviet corruption through centralizing education, increasing the education and pay of bureaucrats, publicly arresting corrupt politicians, firing entire government departments, and more.
yNG8 TIL Since the SNES wasn’t powerful enough to emulate a GameBoy in software, the Super GameBoy actually contained all the hardware of a regular gameboy except the screen.
DQXpY TIL In 1965 part of the training to be a Medic in Vietnam included the Dog Lab where they had to shoot a Dog (Patient) with a .22 (in the thigh) and then treat the wound successfully