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10 Facts about Adolf Hitler 1. Hitler spied on the Nazi Party before joining them. Then he realized that he shared the same anti-Semitic, nationalist and anti-Marxist views as the leader Anton Drexler and joined the Party, becoming their 55th member. 2. During his teens, Hitler dreamed of being an artist and was twice rejected from Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts (in both 1907 and 1908) due to “his unfitness for painting”. 3. Adolf Shicklgruber was his real name. 4. The vast m ajority of the 11million people killed during the Holocaust were murdered at the 1,200 Death and Concentration Camps established by the Nazis – yet Hitler never set foot in one of them. 5. Hitler was TIME Magazine’s Man Of The Year for 1938 6. Hitler wanted to become a priest when he was young. 7. He helped to implement laws which protected wild animals, chickens and cattle – and he intended to reduce Germany’s meat consumption after World War II. 8. Despite his attempt “to rid...

10 Facts about Nuclear Energy 1. Nuclear energy comes from uranium, a nonrenewable resource that must be mined. 2. Every 18 to 24 months, a power plant must shut down to remove its spent uranium fuel, which becomes radioactive waste. 3. In 1905, Einstein discovered that mass could be changed into energy and vice versa. In 1918, Sir Ernest Rutherford showed that atoms could be split. By 1942, the world had its first nuclear reactor. 4. Today, 104 nuclear plants supply about 2 0% of the United State’s electricity. The oldest plants have been operating since before 1979. 5. Contaminated food was still sold in the Ukraine after the Chernobyl accident. One worker described the conditions after the accident: “Contaminated meat would come from the factory. The internal organs of the cattle would be black and rotten, but still, the meat was sold." 6. Currently, nuclear waste in the United States is stored in cooling pools of water and in dry storage casks at nu...