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TIL that Hitler came to power in a democracy with a highly liberal constitution, and in part by using democratic freedoms to undermine and then destroy democracy itself.

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pYnYO TIL eVscope users have the ability to participate in Citizen Science efforts led by the SETI Institute. The smart telescope technology (4.5 inch reflector) is sensitive enough to image the transit of exoplanets and the occultation of a star by a Trojan Asteroid
WkAoN TIL When Picasso died at the age of 91, he left more than 45,000 works. In 1980 the Picasso estate was appraised at $250 million, but experts have said the true value was actually in the billions. Picasso did not leave a will, the division of his holdings took six years among seven heirs
9YDED TIL that the best spot in New York City to watch women's skirts being whipped around was the windy area around the Flatiron Building. In fact, policemen would occasionally have to shoo away these perpetual watches, and the expression '23 Skidoo' was said to have been born on this windswept corner.
yQvRw TIL one typo lead to the hire of a Geoffrey Tandy, a seaweed expert (cryptogamist) instead of a codebreaker (cryptogramist) during WW2, but the help of the seaweed expert accelerated the end of the war by 2 to 4 yrs saving millions of lives in the process
DQM9J TIL that in the 1960 Massachusetts Democratic primary, six different candidates named "John Kennedy" were on the ballot for various offices, not counting the future president.