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

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V5GB TIL that shower-arguments have a name, Jouska. A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
9Y8d7 TIL that during the 1946 election for sheriff in Athens, Tennessee a deputy refused to let an elderly black man vote. When the man dropped his ballot and ran, the deputy shot him in the back. This catalyst led to WWII veterans laying siege on the officers holed up in a prison.
Z8kwp TIL The hospital in scrubs was the hospital used in the office.
415R TIL that MIT students designed an application that will randomly generate a nonsense academic paper; one of these generated papers was actually accepted to the 2005 World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.
Wk1kN TIL that name of The Three Musketeers candy bar was inspired by three different flavored pieces in each package (chocolate, strawberry and vanilla). Rising costs and WW2 restrictions on sugar led to consolidation into a single chocolate bar.