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TIL That the Waffen SS had a unit made up of murders, rapists and the criminally insane that was led by a convicted paedophile.

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x66Xb TIL of Palenquero, a Spanish-based creole spoken in the Colombian town of San Basilio de Palenque that mixes Spanish with Kikongo, a language spoken in the Congo region of Africa. It is the last Spanish-based creole language of its kind in Latin America.
P1K4e TIL that phantom vibration syndrome (PVS) refers to the false perception that one’s mobile phone or other technological device is vibrating when it is not.
69XbZ TIL Canadian Spitfire ace Doug Lindsay with 3 Wingmen were ordered to intercept 40 German Aircraft over France in WW2 and survived destroying 3 enemies.
PbYE TIL A bank in Utah was made using parcel post delivered bricks, around one ton of bricks sent a day. After the building was completed, the regulations were changed, with the post office claiming “It is not the intent of the post office that buildings be sent through mail.”
M7xPV TIL that during his retirement, George Washington was so intent on staying within 25 miles of his Mount Vernon Estate that he declined to attend the wedding of his nephew Lawrence Augustine Washington.