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TIL Coco Chanel was a confirmed Nazi agent who went under the code name 'Westminster'. She spent most of WW2 in Paris in the Ritz, sleeping with Nazi officers and had direct contact to Himmler and Goebbels.

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OGgAR TIL remains of victims of the 1985 MOVE bombing were retained by the City of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania until 2021, without the knowledge or consent of their surviving family members
VM8ND TIL Germany 'acquired' an entire Ancient Greek temple, dismantled it, shipped it back to Berlin and re-assembled it there as a museum.
a8GEy TIL: Despite losing the videotape format war in 1988, the last Betamax tape was made in 2016.
X8xR TIL Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA released nearly 12 million documents. One set of documents revealed research of possibility that “insane” people may be experiencing multiple “levels of reality” and their brains can’t process this information, leading to mental instability [PDF]
w7MY TIL that the African Sahara Desert comprises about 8% of the world’s land area, and you could place the entire continental United States within it and have room to spare