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TIL That when Napoleon was asked whether he wanted to be God, He thought it over and replied, ‘No, it’s a dead-end job.’

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1arXd TIL during the opening of 1936 Olympic,Adolph Hitler made a speech which was broadcasted in 41 countries.Due to the high frequency of the signal,it escaped the earth ionosphere.Carl Sagan wrote his book Contact,on alien-human encounter based on this platform that alien heard Hitlers voice first.
j5ka TIL that in 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a maximum income of $25,000, equivalent to roughly $350,000 today.
Q51M TIL: Of the 34 countries with the highest birth rates in the world, 32 are in Africa
8arG TIL that the funny hats worn by the British Royal Guard require an entire bear skin to make.
6dyX TIL That after the 2006 Amish shooting that left 5 schoolgirls dead the parents of the girls went to the shooter’s house and comforted his widow. A fund was then set up for the widow’s family by the Amish community.