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TIL the allies had plans to assassinate Hitler in 1944, but decided against it because they considered him to be less competent than anyone who might have replaced him (likely Himmler, Bormann, Goebbels, or Goering). He made enough strategic mistakes that it was probably better to keep him around.

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KYAmG TIL in 1985, drug smugglers dropped 40 containers of cocaine from a plane above Tennessee because the plane was too heavy. 3 months later, investigators found the containers and a dead black bear that had consumed 75 pounds of the drug. It’s stomach was “literally packed to the brim with cocaine.”
7mJb TIL that Americans are essentially working for free almost one week per year because they don’t use their vacation days.
LkRmd TIL Coca-Cola in the Maldives is made from seawater
loWBN TIL WW1 started because Franz Ferdinand's driver took a wrong turn
xN8B TIL every year Louis Vuitton burns all their left over handbags and accessories to preserve the high-class nature of the brand and it’s value