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TIL the head of the Gestapo disappeared after WWII and his fate remains a mystery.

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5YEYp TIL the 1985 film "Better Off Dead" was semi-biographical. The writer-director really did have a girlfriend break up with him to go out with the captain of the ski team. He really was heartbroken and suicidal over it...and the paperboy that wanted his two dollars...yeah... that was a thing too!
womyP TIL that the average male will produce roughly 525 billion sperm cells over a lifetime. That's around five times the number of people who have ever lived.
jNBJN TIL in 1890, two lawyers wrote an article titled “The Right to Privacy". It is regarded as the first publication in the USA that advocated that individuals had a right to privacy. It describes the right as the "right to be let alone".
XEJpr TIL NASA changed their urine-collecting condom sizes from Small, Medium, Large, to Large, Gigantic, Humongous because male astronauts who were not well-endowed continued choosing ‘Large’ even though it was too big.
5Rg8 TIL that slaves were forbidden from owning drums, as they were used to communicate. New Orleans was the only city where slaves could legally own them. Hundreds of slaves were allowed to gather each Sunday to trade, sing, dance, and play music. This led to the birth of Jazz.