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TIL that Adolf Hitler had a nephew named William Patrick Hitler, who was born in the UK in 1911. He tried blackmailing the Fuhrer, and later immigrated to the US in 1939. He was drafted into the USN in 1944, and after the war, lived quietly in Long Island and passed away in 1987.

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5YjGk TIL Teflon was introduced by DuPont in nonstick cookware in 1946 and was the very “forever chemical.” These types of chemicals are linked to many diseases, never break down in the environment, and are now present in the blood of nearly every American adult and newborn baby.
b9RyE TIL Forgotten Nazi camp on British soil revealed by archaeologists
0d71R TIL unsolved murders aren't an occasional thing in the US, only around half of murders were solved in the past few years (even fewer are solved in some big cities)
aONA TIL Erwin Rommel humanely treated captured soldiers, ignored orders to kill Jews, civilians and conspired to assassinate Hitler. After his death soldiers on both sides pay respect to his grave and he is the only member of The Third Reich to have a museum dedicated to him.
Z85eD TIL of Knut Haugland, WW2 Norwegian resistance fighter who took part in Operation Gunnerside which the film The Heroes of Telemark was based on. Haugland was later captured by the nazis and escaped, twice and would later be part of the Kon Tiki crew alongside Thor Heyerdal. A total badass.