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TIL that the founder of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, was an atheist.

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bNo0 TIL in 1942, a Finnish engineer Thor Damen secretly recorded 11 minutes of a conversation between Adolf Hitler and Finnish Defence Chief Gustaf Mannerheim. It is the only known recording of Hitler’s normal voice.
kOZB TIL that American soldiers are committing suicide at the rate of 1 per day
e0PG5 TIL Transatlantic aviators refer to the longitude of 30W as the Molson-Guinness Line because that is where aircraft move from the Irish to the Canadian air traffic system and vice versa, Molson being a Canadian beer and Guinness being an Irish one. It is even marked on charts.
LkvlP TIL that Pythagoras invented a "Greedy Cup" which would empty onto the user when overfilled.
rP4 TIL British bombers bombed wooden German decoy airplanes 1944. With wooden decoy bombs.