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TIL that the Hitlers were early pioneers of southern Ohio, including a dentist named Dr. Gay Hitler.

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8aEjG TIL of Saleh Ibn Abdul Rahman al-Hussayen, a senior official in Saudi Arabia, who stayed in the same hotel as the 9/11 hijackers the night before the attacks. He feigned a seizure when interviewed by the FBI and flew back to Saudi Arabia after flights resumed, against the FBI’s recommendation.
Z8Rb4 TIL about King Farouk of Egypt, who was condemned as lustful, greedy, sybaritic, and avaricious, yet one author wrote that he was the victim of "sizeism", charging that Farouk was condemned for his lifestyle because he was fat and bald.
x8l7 TIL Actress Carrey Mulligan and singer Marcus Mumford were childhood pen pals who lost contact. Each found fame and were reintroduced to each other as adults and fell in love. They are now married.
rlgd TIL that after needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.
BrVLr TIL of the term "paraprosdokian" - a figure of speech in which the latter part of a phrase is surprising in a way that causes the reader or listener to reinterpret the first part. An example would be Mitch Hedberg's famous one-liner "I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long."