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TIL that Adolf Hitler wrote a letter from jail begging a Mercedez-Benz dealership for a car loan. The letter was found at a flea market.

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JgNk TIL All mammals have roughly the same lifespan at 1.5 billion heartbeats. An elephant lives longer than a mouse because it’s heart beats slower.
p8d8A TIL that Turkey Vultures have been & sometimes are still used to detect natural gas leaks from pipelines; the odor that gas companies add to gas (so we can detect it since it's odorless) is the same as rotting flesh, which leads the vultures to congregate in the sky in the area of the leak.
Kpe4 TIL there’s a mental illness called Cotard Delusion in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that they are already dead, putrefying or don’t exist.
b6r74 TIL that in 1959, the CIA covertly accessed, disassembled, photographed, and reassembled a fully-operational Soviet lunar probe. When they were done, they returned the probe without the Soviets noticing.
KO1Oa TIL a cucumber is not a vegetable it is actually a fruit due to it having flowers