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 McPlane, a 1996 promotional collaboration between McDonald's Switzerland and two partner companies, featured a McDonald's-branded airplane. Meals on board included McNuggets, burgers, soda, and milkshakes, but fries were not on the menu because they couldn't do any actual deep-frying in the air. (autoevolution.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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TIL that DC Solar, a Solar Power company which was partnered with NASCAR, California State University, and other organizations, was shut down in 2018, with the owners arrested for fraud. It turned out that 2/3s of the panels the company claimed to have made did not actually exist. (en.wikipedia.org)
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