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TIL Hitler’s popularity is rising in India.

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JWEm TIL there is no Nobel Prize for Mathematics because Alfred Nobel did not want one.
yj8w TIL the cast of Starship Troopers agreed to shoot the coed shower scene on the condition that director Paul Verhoeven would direct it while naked.
QNarX TIL Henry VIII had an illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy. He was briefly a candidate for the English throne, and to prevent Henry VIII's marriage annulement and break from the church, the pope considered suggesting instead to allow FitzRoy to marry his own sister, Mary Tudor, and proclaimed heir
OdL7 TIL In 2007 six live nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a B-52H bomber and flown from Minot, North Dakota to Barksdale, Louisiana. For a whole 36 hours they went unaccounted for.
eRdE TIL that Isaac Newton predicted that the world would end around 2060. He wrote this in a letter in 1704 after studying different religious texts. He also “wrote more about theology and alchemy than science and math combined.”