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TIL that Georg Elser tried to stop Hitler five years before Stauffenberg

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AN9Og TIL that when director James Gunn cast David Dastmalchian as supervillain Polka-Dot Man for "The Suicide Squad", he had no idea that the actor has vitiligo. The skin disease gives Dastmalchian polka dots on his skin; as a child, he was mocked by others as "polka dots" and "Dalmatian".
D1RKv TIL Australia has 10,685 beaches. If you visited one beach per day, it would take you more than 32 years to see them all.
awXe9 TIL: Television consumers in the US are encouraged to report to the FCC any commercials that exceed the volume of the regular programming. As of December 13, 2012, all television stations have been expected to abide by rules established under the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act.
9vom TIL that the discoverer of penicillin also warned us early on about the possibility of antibiotic resistant bacteria due to misuse of antibiotics.
aXlZ TIL there are ~ 2 million children under slave labor in the chocolate industry.