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TIL that if his father hadn’t changed his name in 1877, Hitler’s name would have been “Adolf Schicklgruber”

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jPbn TIL the highest paid player in the WNBA makes less than $100,000
5YQBp TIL Tyrannosaurus rex was originally thought to have walked fully upright like a kangaroo, and was posed this way in numerous books and movies until the 1970s. Jurassic Park helped present a revised depiction of its posture to the public.
gM4e7 TIL that After the Chernobyl reactor went into meltdown the pine forest surrounding it turned the colour of copper after dying from radiation absorption
BrxBD TIL the first ever photocopier, the Xerox 914, caught fire so frequently that a “scorch eliminator”, asmall fire extinguisher, was provided with the copier.
R7WQ4 TIL about the glabella. It is the skin between the eyebrows and above the nose.