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TIL Hitler approved the development of an inflatable sex-doll to be distributed to troops to combat syphilis.

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8ewQZ TIL that Walmart tried and failed to establish itself in Germany in the early 2000s. One of the speculated reasons for its failure is that Germans found certain team-building activities and the forced greeting and smiling at customers unnerving.
VZrm TIL the last legal duel in Canada was between two men for the love of a local schoolteacher.
ne5DG TIL in the 2000 paralympics, the Spanish team in basketball-ID consisted of fully functional semi-pros. They won gold by a landslide but where discovered because one of the players was an undercover journalist investigating fraud comitted by the president of the Spanish Disabled Sports Federation.
1EQ8 TIL that portions of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s doctoral dissertation were posthumously found to have been plagiarized verbatim from other sources.
47x6 TIL Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks watch a lot of movies together, but only movies that contain the phrase “secure the perimeter.”