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TIL that Hitler’s plan for Moscow was to kill all residents and replace it with a lake

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N7g98 TIL, after being fatally shot in 1996, Tupac Shakur’s last and only words to assisting police were “fuck you”. He refused to say anything else.
4XQAo TIL N.Rothschild had early info that Napoleon lost at Waterloo, and used that info at the London stock exchange: instead of buying, he sold shares en masse, making people think that Napoleon had won and plummeting the stocks. At the last minute he started buying at low prices, thus making a fortune
6nw7 TIL that wild pigs throughout the Americas descend from pigs brought over on ships by the first Spanish explorers.
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1GeO TIL while reading about Stalingrad in 1942 that, by itself, the Eastern Front in WW2 was the largest war in history.