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TIL that germans refused to believe that Hitler will really do all things he announced years before election in “Mein Kampf”

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DQakP TIL that before the Indo-Greek interactions, the Buddha was only depicted with icons, and his human image was a result of the combination of the god Apollo and traditional descriptions of him.
EBGX TIL: in 2009, a South African IT company had a carrier pigeon race against the country’s largest internet service provider, Telkom, over 80 km. In a two hour period, a 4GB flash drive was carried by Winston the pigeon and read, while only 4.2% of the data had been transferred by Telkom.
mxMGE TIL the Ashera is the world's most expensive domestic cat. The cat was developed by a British businessman in 2007 by cross-breeding two wild cats and a domestic cat. The size of a small dog, the Ashera can sell for as much as $125,000.
exDb TIL that the world’s longest traffic jam occurred in China in 2010 and it lasted for over ten days. At its worst, cars were moving at speeds of around 1km (0.6 miles) per day.
GYd5J TIL that fungi are evolutionarily more closely related to animals than to plants, and this was not recognized until a few decades ago.