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TIL Anoka, Minnesota was the first U.S. city to put on a Halloween celebration when they did so in 1920 to divert youngsters from Halloween pranks. It was also proclaimed "The Halloween Capital of the World" by Congress in 1937. Today, tens of thousands of people visits Anoka annually for Halloween.

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E1lBP TIL of the trial and judgement of Nazi camp commandant Josef Oberhauser. Sentenced by West German courts for 450,000 counts of accessory to murder in the Bełżec camp, he was punished with 4,5 years imprisonment, or, a bit more than 5 minutes per victim.
JYjKB TIL that Adolf Hitler received an award for bravery during World War 1 on the recommendation of Lieutenant Hugo Gutmann, Hitler's Jewish superior.
E1pMo TIL that the unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
v1Ykx TIL A satellite launched in 1978, and thought to be shutdown in 1997, was actually discovered in 2008 still be fully operational with plenty of fuel. Through efforts of crowd funding and approval from NASA, a group successfully established contact and fired the engines for the first time since 1987
Wyk8 TIL that in 2004 Volvo unveiled a concept car “for women, by women” without a hood because “their target audience doesn’t need to look under the hood.”