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TIL before Mao took control of China, he ruled an unrecognized country in the southwest called the Chinese Soviet Republic.

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OG7mY TIL Afolf Hitler's father was born Alois Schickelgruber, and his biological father is unknown. He convinced authorities to make his stepfather Johann Hiedler his legal father, and change his last name to Hiedler. For unknown reasons, authorities misspelled his last name as Hitler
PYmMZ TIL Some people can experience Sleep Paralysis during waking up or before falling asleep. When it happens a person is aware but unable to move or speak. When it happens one may hallucinate: hear, feel, or see things that are not there.
GYPmj TIL that our eyes see everything upside down and we only see the reality because our brains reverse the picture that our eyes see
nePQP Til that Sailing stones exist - rocks that move up to 5 meters per minute across the ground by themselves, leaving trails behind them. The movement is caused by temperature changes and they're so common in a part of Death Valley that it's called 'Racetrack playa' due to the 'tracks' that they leave.
dbaK TIL Chevy Chase played drums in college for a band called The Leather Canary, which he referred to as a “bad Jazz band”. After leaving, two bandmembers and classmates went on to be successful as the band Steely Dan.