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TIL in 2010 the Navy spent $14 million to alter the appearance of a San Diego naval building that resembles a Nazi swastika. After the project was completed in 2016, it still looked like a swastika.

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VV50 TIL: The Ottoman Turks unknowingly used the Rosetta Stone as a building slab for a military fort. The French captured the fort, and became fascinated with the stone, which unlocked the lost secrets of Ancient Egypt.
9YL6 TIL The German 7th Panzer Division, a.k.a. the Ghost Division, was so fast and independent that even the German High Command didn’t always know where they were during the Battle of France.
D16jj TIL in 1490, the Ming Dynasty reportedly experienced a meteor shower so severe it resulted in a “rain of rocks”, killing several tens of thousands of people, according to some official sources
ADKko TIL that the game WoW had virtual pandemic-like accident in which scientists actually tried to research people's reaction into epidemics.
0ddOL TIL Roughly 2.5 billion people watched princess Diana’s funeral in 1997. At its height the queue to reach the book of condolences took 6.5 hours. The queen gave her first live broadcast in 50 years