Adolf Hitler, the infamous German dictator, was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, near the border with the German Empire. He was the fourth of six children born to Alois Hitler and his third wife, Klara Pölzl.

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There is a parasitic barnacle that will infect a crab, castrate the males, make them think they’re female, and force them to carry around the barnacle’s brood as if it is their own.

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"I Am" is the shortest complete sentence in English. In English, a full sentence requires both a subject and a predicate. The statement 'I am' has both the subject- I and the predicate- am. It also conveys a comprehensive thought. So, 'I am' is the shortest sentence.

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It is not uncommon for successful people to underestimate and devalue their own achievements, and even believe that their own success/competence/intelligence is fraudulent. This mindset is known as Impostor Syndrome.

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The CIA reads up to 5 million tweets a day.

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In Ancient Greece, people used to go to the gym naked — the word ‘gymnasium’ means “school for naked exercise”.

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In 2013, a man bought a house next to his ex-wife just to install a giant middle finger statue for her to see every day.

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Internet trolls are likely to be sadists, narcissists, or psychopaths, studies show. One of the studies found that the link between sadism and Internet trolling is so strong that trolls could be described as “prototypical everyday sadists.”

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In 1958, a white girl kissed two African American boys aged 9 and 7 on the cheeks. The two boys were arrested, detained for 6 days without access to their parents or legal counsel, and were severely beaten by the police. The boys were detained for a total of 3 months.

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Going to the bathroom is one of the most dangerous things a sloth can do. Half of all sloth deaths occur while they are climbing to and from the forest floor, which is where they poop.

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Pope John Paul II once told Stephen Hawking to not study the beginning of the universe because it was the work of God.

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Swedish and Scandinavian children dress up as witches and go door-to-door asking for candy on Easter.

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Through a series of mistranslated texts, the Christian Church unwittingly accepted the Buddha as a Christian saint in the Middle Ages

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The Dothraki language used in Game of Thrones was designed to sound like Arabic to the untrained ear, or a mix between Spanish and Arabic to anyone who knows Arabic.

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Intellectual property law doesn’t cover magic tricks. An original trick can be stolen from a magician and there’s nothing he can do about it.

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A suicide bomber with explosives in his laptop boarded the Somali owned Daallo Airlines in 2016 intending to blow the whole aircraft. Twenty minutes after takeoff, the bomb exploded, creating a hole in the plane, and the suicide bomber was sucked out of the plane. He was the only fatality.

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There is more genetic variety within Africa than the rest of the world combined. In other words, Western Europeans and East Asians are potentially more genetically similar to each other than two Africans from the same village (assuming no family lineage).

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On average, the center of gravity is about three percent higher in blacks than whites. This partially explains why blacks are better sprinters and whites are better swimmers.

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Prisoners of war in Canada, during world war 2, were treated so nicely that they didn’t want to leave Canada when released.

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It was common in Ancient Greece to write a text bi-directionally, meaning that one line would be written from left to right and the following line, from right to left. Not only would the reading direction change, but the letters were also mirrored from one line to the other.

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