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TIL Hitler’s brother lived in Liverpool and had a son, Patrick William Hitler, who joined the US army during WW2

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D1pnv TIL that Before the Civil War, uniforms were custom-sewn. Such a massive number of people had to be outfitted that uniforms needed to be mass produced. Soldiers were put into subtypes: large, medium, and small—classifications that eventually found their way to civilian clothing.
v1VgK TIL eating the liver of a polar animal (especially polar bears) will kill you due to a vitamine A overdose.
oBx4r TIL McDonald's did away with their spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons.
9Jgr TIL Drugmakers and Internet companies link U.S. pharmacy records with online accounts to target ads to people based on their health conditions and the prescription drugs they buy.
oR1jE TIL that the single largest infiltration of the United States government in history was committed by the Church of Scientology in order to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder L. Ron Hubbard.