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TIL Hitler's surname would have been "Schicklgruber" if his father's name hadn't been changed to Hitler some years earlier

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wYvY TIL that the rape conviction rate is 58%, higher than the average for crimes. The myth that it’s hard to get a rapist convicted, which keeps some assaults from being reported, is absolutely false.
ZLZY TIL an ex-member of Pink Floyd, in “a real act of mad genius,” pranked the band by writing a seemingly simple song that the band could never learn; each time they rehearsed it, he would arbitrarily change the chords, then sing it back to them to correct them. It was called “Have You Got It Yet?”
EgPMX TIL that sitting on a sea turtle in the United States is a felony where you can get up to 5 years in prison, and pay a $250,000 fine.
X0XAE TIL in 1962, the US accidentally dropped two nuclear bombs over North Carolina. Fortunately, neither of the bombs detonated.
QJVJp TIL that the Nazis branded Einstein's theory of relativity to be "Jewish physics" and published a book "One Hundred Authors Against Einstein". When asked how he could win an argument against so many people Einstein replied that one fact was more powerful than 100 scientists