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TIL that Hitler grew to hate soccer because it couldn’t be fixed to ensure German victory over non-Germans.

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9YMyX TIL that the US had a lesbian First Lady in 1885-1886. She was Rose Cleveland--Grover Cleveland's youngest sister and Acting US First Lady before Grover married in 1886. She was also a lesbian & had a relationship with a wealthy widow, Evangeline Marrs Simpson, with explicitly erotic correspondence.
Lkjv9 TIL That the first bicycle was invented during a famine caused by a Indonesian vulcanic eruption in 1815. Horses were eaten during the famine, so there were fewer of them to be used as a means of transportation.
g5jy TIL, the FBI once circulated to police departments, people who make frequent reference to the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights may be terrorists
j6QNv TIL that AI models like ChatGPT don’t understand language like a real mind does. They predict the next word based on patterns in data.
KYvLE TIL That the LAPD has more helicopters than dogs.