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TIL that Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin were all nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

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wLR18 TIL that there are no horror movies in China. They don't have a rating system so "you must make movies that a five year old can watch without feeling scared."
Z87xa TIL that during the making of “Pulp Fiction,” Vincent Vega’s 1964 Chevelle Malibu, which actually belonged to Tarantino, was stolen during production. In 2013, he was reunited with it when a sheriff spotted two men stripping it in the Oakland area, ran the VIN, and found it belonged to the director.
Zp8lQ TIL: US torpedoes at the beginning of WW2 had an extremely high dud rate that took awhile to be acknowledged because the US Navy refused to allow live testing of ordinance as a cost saving measure.
V044 TIL Timothy Cole was arrested and convicted of rape in 1985 and sentenced to 25 years, dying in prison in 1999. After the statute of limitations on the crime had run out, the real rapist confessed and DNA testing proved Cole innocence. He was officially pardoned in 2009.
VB49Z TIL that in 1405, King Charles VI of France went five months without bathing or changing his clothes. He was also convinced he was made of glass and feared he would shatter if touched.