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TIL that in 1967 a history teacher performed an experiment with his class to find out why people allowed the Nazis to commit terrible acts. He brainwashed them using Nazi ideals and at the end of the week had several hundred teenage followers under his complete control before he revealed the truth

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D1GyV TIL about Fitzwilliam Notebook, which was a diary kept by Isaac Newton when he was 19 or 20 years old. It contained a list of Newton's 57 deeds that he considered sins. The list included entries like 'making pies on Sunday night', 'calling Dorothy Rose a jade' etc.
6Ed87 TIL that rollercoasters were invented to distract Americans from sin. In the 1880s, hosiery businessman LaMarcus Thompson didn’t like that Americans were going to places like saloons and brothels and created the first rollercoaster on Coney Island to persuade them to go there instead.
Y7xYA TIL Hugh Hefner once played Willy Wonka by hiding “golden tickets” in 10 copies of Playboy magazine where the finder gets invited to party at the Mansion
GAYO7 TIL that the United States is the second oldest country in the world when going by the date of the current constitution
KYdnB TIL, after U.S. President Garfield was shot, his doctors were so negligent and gave him such a bad infection that his assassin openly confessed at trial to the shooting, but argued that Garfield’s doctors had actually done the killing