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TIL: The Head of the Nazi Gestapo (Secret Police) vanished at the end of WWII with no capture or confirmed death.

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9Yeg6 TIL that there are no Wendy's in Europe due to a local Dutch snackbar owner owning the Wendy's trademark in Europe. They have been in a legal battle for years and Dutch courts side with the snackbar every time.
jNPnj TIL Herbert Hoover was so fat that his doctor invented Hooverball, where "On a tennis-like court, two teams of three players throw a 6-pound medicine ball back and forth over an 8-foot net." Hoover lost 21 pounds in his term.
9dQX TIL: We have Motion-induced blindness (just stare at the dot in the middle for 10 sec)
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