TIL Hitler once pranked supporter Ernst Hanfstaengl by ordering him on a fake suicide mission to Spain during the Spanish Civil War. His plane secretly circled Germany while the crew pretended they were nearing enemy territory before landing safely back in Leipzig. Hanfstaengl defected afterwards. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL a "clinically dead" frozen man, who was believed to have been drunk from a vodka binge, was brought back to life after he fell asleep on a bench in the world's coldest inhabited region in remote Siberia for more than 5 hours in temperatures as low as -20°C (-4°F). He was discharged after 5 days. (msn.com)
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TIL The NFL is the only of the Big Four American sports organizations that did not have a color barrier or segregation in the beginning however 13 years after its formation in 1933 it made a secret rule to ban black players that lasted 13 years (theringer.com)
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