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TIL in 1952, 25% of surveyed Germans in US occupied zone still had a good opinion of Hitler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gejlrz/til_in_1952_25_of_surveyed_germans_in_us_occupied/

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TIL Joseph Goebbels seriously considered becoming a Catholic priest. He was aided in his earlier studies by a scholarship from the Albertus Magnus Society; Mangus was a German Dominican friar and Catholic Saint

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gej99t/til_joseph_goebbels_seriously_considered_becoming/

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TIL of Li Tobler, an actress and model who dated H.R. Giger and was the inspiration for many of the women in his art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Tobler
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1geifsg/til_of_li_tobler_an_actress_and_model_who_dated/

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TIL that according to an estimate by astronomer Simon Driver, there are about 70 sextillion stars (or 70 thousand million million million stars) in our observable universe.

https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2015/08/19/4293562.htm
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gei48v/til_that_according_to_an_estimate_by_astronomer/

Are there more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth?

Are there really more stars in our universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches on Earth?
www.abc.net.au
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TIL: There was a chess controversy in India in 2021 during a charity match between billionaire Nikhil Kamath and a GM. It was revealed the billionaire cheated by hiring several chess experts and used computers to make perfect moves. He owned a stock brokerage

https://www.hindustantimes.com/sports/others/chess-charity-cheat-twitter-ablaze-after-gm-viswanathan-anand-unfairly…
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gehtws/til_there_was_a_chess_controversy_in_india_in/

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TIL the Association of German National Jews supported Hitler, believing his rhetoric was just to "stir up the masses"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gehp5n/til_the_association_of_german_national_jews/
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TIL, immediately after WWII, the U.S Government took 1,600 Nazi scientists back to the U.S. This secret operation was called “Operation Paperclip”. Many of these ex-Nazis scientists went to work for NASA. The most famous ex-Nazi scientist was Wernher von Braun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gehl72/til_immediately_after_wwii_the_us_government_took/

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TIL that in 2014, the Copenhagen Zoo euthanized a healthy giraffe because they wanted to prevent him from breeding. The animal was killed, skinned, and fed to the zoos lions, all in full view of children

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26098935
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'Surplus' giraffe put down at Copenhagen Zoo

Campaigners fail in a last-ditch campaign to save Marius the giraffe from being destroyed at Copenhagen Zoo to comply with rules over in-breeding.
BBC News
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TIL Beer was banned in Iceland until 1989-Iceland went through a prohibition of beer which began in 1915. Every March 1st, the country celebrates “Bjórdagurinn” or “Beer Day” commemorating the end of a 74-year beer ban.

https://guidetoiceland.is/history-culture/beer-day-in-iceland
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Beer Day in Iceland

Read our guide to the national Icelandic celebration called 'Beer Day.' Find out why beer is so important to Icelanders & how it was banned for so long.
Nanna Gunnarsdóttir (Guide to Iceland)
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TIL that experiments conducted by academic specialists in animal communication "suggest that slow blink sequences may function as a form of positive emotional communication between cats and humans."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-73426-0#auth-Tasmin-Humphrey-Aff1
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1geg7aq/til_that_experiments_conducted_by_academic/

The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication
Nature
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TIL that Ulysses S Grant was supposed to attend the play in which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. John Wilkes Booth had also planned to assassinate Grant. However, at the last minute Grant decided to go to New Jersey to visit his children instead of attending the play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Assassination
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1geg0gv/til_that_ulysses_s_grant_was_supposed_to_attend/

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TIL Halloween started around 2,000 years from an ancient Celtic festival to celebrate the end of harvest season. The Gaels believed on Oct 31, the boundaries between the worlds of living and the dead got a little blurry and the dead would come back to life and wreak havoc among the living

https://www.ef.edu/blog/language/13-thrilling-facts-bet-didnt-know-halloween/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gefp5z/til_halloween_started_around_2000_years_from_an/

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TIL that Sylvester Stallone and Mark Hamill were set to play Batman and the Joker in the 2003 Fan Film “Batman: Dead End”. Stallone dropped out due to fear of legal issues from Film Studios and Hamill dropped out shortly after.

https://movieweb.com/sylvester-stallone-almost-played-batman/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gefb5q/til_that_sylvester_stallone_and_mark_hamill_were/

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TIL Weezer banned reverb and only allowed downstrokes on the guitar when making the Blue Album. They also treated the guitar and bass as one instrument, playing in unison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weezer_(Blue_Album)#:~:text=They%20decided%20on%20Ric%20Ocasek,on%20all%20downstrokes%20on%20guitar
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gefamv/til_weezer_banned_reverb_and_only_allowed/

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TIL most plastics are more expensive than gasoline by weight . The average consumer only thinks gas is expensive compared to plastic because they buy more gas than plastic.

https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/chemicals/030321-spot-us-pe-pricing-hits-multi-year-highs-for-hdpe-lldpe-and-ldpe
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gedkhu/til_most_plastics_are_more_expensive_than/

Spot US polyethylene pricing hits multi-year highs for HDPE, LLDPE and LDPE

Spot US export pricing for high density polyethylene blowmolding, linear low density polyethylene and low density polyethylene all hit multi year highs as pricing rose on the week, due to lack of avai
Jacquelyn Melinek (S&P Global Commodity Insights)
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TIL that King Abdullah of Jordan once appeared on Star Trek: Voyager

https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/king-abdullah-of-jordan-son-of-former-king-hussein-appears-news-photo/51096668
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Getty Images

Getty Images Au. Find high resolution royalty-free images, editorial stock photos, vector art, video footage clips and stock music licensing at the richest image search photo library online.
www.gettyimages.com.au
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TIL In the 1950’s, when General Electric opened Appliance Park in Louisville, KY, they persuaded lawmakers to bend the time zone boundary around the city so the factory would observe the same time as GE’s headquarters in Fairfield, CT.

https://archive.triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/made-in-america-makes-a-comeback-2/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1gebea6/til_in_the_1950s_when_general_electric_opened/

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TIL that in 1967, Jim Morrison was set to star in the Andy Warhol “I, a Man” - where the main character has a series of sexual encounters with eight women. Morrison later backed out of the film, and his friend Tom Baker took over the role.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_a_Man
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1geb4bm/til_that_in_1967_jim_morrison_was_set_to_star_in/
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TIL legendary session bassist Leland Sklar put a switch on his bass that does nothing. He calls it the "producer switch" — when a producer asks for a different sound, he flips the switch (making sure the producer can see), and carries on. He says this placebo has saved him a lot of grief.

https://www.guitarworld.com/features/the-truth-behind-lee-sklars-custom-producers-…
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TIL that a group of researchers hotboxed lobsters to see if they would get high. They discovered “duration-related THC levels in all tissues examined.” Along with a lowered locomotor activity.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0091305721001210
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ge9ky1/til_that_a_group_of_researchers_hotboxed_lobsters/
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TIL that during the 2001 anthrax attacks, one of the biggest concerns of investigators, was ensuring that smallpox samples had not been placed in with the anthrax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks#Anthrax_material
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ge8015/til_that_during_the_2001_anthrax_attacks_one_of/

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TIL during 1904 Olympics men's marathon winner was disqualified as he rode in a car for part of the race. The actual winner was near collapse and hallucinating, an effect of being fed brandy, raw eggs, and strychnine by his trainers. The fourth-place finisher took a nap after eating spoiled apples.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-1904-marathon-became-one…
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ge7m5f/til_during_1904_olympics_mens_marathon_winner_was/

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TIL The stability–instability paradox states that when two countries each have nuclear weapons, the probability of a direct war between them greatly decreases, but the probability of minor or indirect conflicts between them increases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability%E2%80%93instability_paradox
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ge6u4e/til_the_stabilityinstability_paradox_states_that/

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TIL that the 400m world record holder Wayde Van Niekerk is the one and only sprinter in history to have run sub-10, sub-20, sub-31 and sub-44 at 100m, 200m, 300m and 400m respectively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayde_van_Niekerk
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ge6hga/til_that_the_400m_world_record_holder_wayde_van/

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TIL that if you were to light your farts on fire, an act called pyroflatulance, the resulting flame would be predominantly blue, as hydrogen and methane, the predominant flammable gasses in farts, burn blue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fart_lighting
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ge6996/til_that_if_you_were_to_light_your_farts_on_fire/

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TIL that while filming Barry Lyndon in Ireland in 1974, director Stanley Kubrick received a phone call alleging that the IRA had him on a hit list and gave him 24 hours to leave the country. He left within 12 hours, with the film being only one-third completed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lyndon#Principal_photography
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ge5o8c/til_that_while_filming_barry_lyndon_in_ireland_in/

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TIL that Oscar nominee, Robert Forster, who played "The Disappearer" in both Breaking Bad and the Breaking Bad movie, "El Camino," died on the release date of El Camino.

https://people.com/movies/robert-forster-dead/
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Robert Forster Dies at Age 78 the Same Day His New Film 'El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie' Is Released

In the movie, the actor reprised his role as Ed from the Emmy-winning AMC series 
Ashley Boucher (PEOPLE)
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TIL that William MacQuitty who oversaw the production of the acclaimed 1958 movie A Night To Remember, which often is regarded as the most accurate film about The Titanic, had seen the ship launch as a child.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_MacQuitty
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ge4k28/til_that_william_macquitty_who_oversaw_the/

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TIL Wolverine was almost a real animal instead of a mutant

https://www.comicbasics.com/wolverine-was-almost-a-real-animal-instead-of-a-mutant-but-the-idea-was-quickly-dropped/
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Wolverine Was Almost a Real Animal Instead of a Mutant, But the Idea Was Quickly Dropped

Wolverine is one of the most popular Marvel characters and one of the most popular mutants. His origin story and powers are well known and it's quite clear
Valentina Kraljik (Comic Basics)
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TIL About Extreme (Haunted) Houses Which Go So Far As To Torture Contestants After Signing A Waiver

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKamey_Manor
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ge3tnb/til_about_extreme_haunted_houses_which_go_so_far/
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TIL that the de facto main language between Singaporeans is Singaporean Colloquial English, AKA broken English/Singlish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Singapore
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ge39q3/til_that_the_de_facto_main_language_between/

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TIL hot spots fed by mantle plumes can result in lava floods in intraplate regions. These results in much more lava (hundreds of thousands of cubic kilometers of basalt) being released than regular eruptions and create flood basalts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_basalt
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ge1kgw/til_hot_spots_fed_by_mantle_plumes_can_result_in/

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TIL that in WW2 there was a Soviet all-female bomber regiment nicknamed by the Germans die Nachthexen, which translates to Night Witches. The regiment flew harassment and precision bombing missions against the German military from 1942 until the end of WW2.

https://www.history.com/news/meet-the-night-witches-the-daring-female-pilots-who-bombed-nazis-by-night
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Meet the Night Witches, the Daring Female Pilots Who Bombed Nazis By Night

They were a crucial Soviet asset to winning World War II.
Brynn Holland (HISTORY)
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TIL a French occultist built a device to test the hypothesis that snails create a permanent telepathic link when they mate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasilalinic-sympathetic_compass
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ge15sj/til_a_french_occultist_built_a_device_to_test_the/

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TIL The East India Company did not carry or sell the opium to China itself because of the Chinese ban, instead the company dominated the Indian production end and monopolized the supply, selling it to private traders/smugglers who actually did the selling, not unlike China on fentanyl issue today.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/opium-trade
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Opium trade | China, History, Wars, & Facts | Britannica

Opium trade, the traffic that developed in the 18th and 19th centuries in which Western countries, mostly Great Britain, exported opium grown in India and sold it to China.
Encyclopedia Britannica
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TIL there's a famous Go game called the "blood-vomiting game", known for 3 brilliant moves by winner Honinbo Jowa and for his opponent Intetsu Akaboshi coughing up blood onto the board, which led to his premature death at 25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood-vomiting_game
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ge036w/til_theres_a_famous_go_game_called_the/

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TIL Americans over the age of 60 are entitled to one kilogram of free cheese every month

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese
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