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TIL that Hitler was a vegetarian and would give vivid and gruesome descriptions of animal slaughter to dissuade his colleagues from eating meat.

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GYwgj TIL that the song April 29, 1992 (Miami) by Sublime isn't about the South Central Los Angeles riots after the acquittal of four police police officers in the beating of Rodney King. It's about the Long Beach, CA riots that erupted a few days later as a result of the South Central riots.
755p TIL About banner blindness, a phenomen where web users subconciously ignore information on webpages from ad-like banners.
XGD8 TIL Interracial Marriage was not fully legalized in the USA until a 1967 Supreme Court Case
W7XOL TIL about the "Green Card Lottery" the first commercial computer spam campaign (Via Usenet) which was started by the now disbarred layer Laurence Canter and his wife in 1994.
7r4Gb TIL that motorcycle world champion, Barry Sheene, enjoyed smoking so much that he had a hole drilled through the chin-bar on his full-face helmet allowing him to smoke right up to the start of a race. He died aged 52 from cancer of the oesophagus and stomach.