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TIL of Georg Elser, the man who missed killing Hitler by 13 minutes

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WkXmN TIL Häagen-Dazs was created in the 1960s by an American couple living in the Bronx. They used a Danish-sounding name because it conveyed an "aura of the old-world traditions and craftsmanship" and added an umlaut even though that punctuation doesn't exist in the Danish language to make it stand out.
ZRZv TIL the Doomsday Clock is set to 3 minutes to midnight, the first time since 1984
NGQJ TIL that the NYPD actively profiles citizens in order to meet “performance standards” aka quotas or else officers get penalized for not having enough “stop and frisk” arrests and summons
6ERxX TIL A 2001 investigation found that in several cases, payday lenders in California were charging considerably higher rates than loan sharks from the Chicago Outfit organized crime syndicate.
YBp7 TIL- In 1980 Saddam Hussein was given the key to the city of Detroit