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TIL Hitler and Himmler believed Atlantis was the homeland of the Aryan race... and spent resources trying to find it

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VMwxG TIL that in 2011, more than 1 in 3 divorce filings in the United States contained the word “Facebook”.
5YWvr TIL: There is a medical condition called Achromatopsia in which people only see black, white, and shades of gray.
ANwwx TIL There were experiments conducted in the 1950s where researchers gave their subjects manual control over the pleasure centers of their brains through the click of a button, wired to surgically implanted electrodes.
Ood5R TIL until his death in 2020, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek displayed a C$49,000 bounced check on the wall of his house for his hosting duties on the 1981-82 Canadian-produced game show Pitfall, as a reminder of how his fellow Canadians did him dirty
0wLdv TIL that the Russians succesfully developed a Plasma STEALTH cloacking device, but it had the limited purpose of screening the combat planes radar antenna, which happens to be a strong radar reflector.