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TIL about Arnulf Fuhrmann, who planned to make Uruguay and Argentina Nazi colonies but failed

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KmXQ TIL David Bowie had an affair with the mother of Guns N’ Roses guitarist, Slash.
PZRE TIL: The FBI poisoned alcohol during the Prohibition, in order to kill and try to frighten Americans from Alcohol.
ZpDda TIL that scientists believe the earliest known ancestor of humans (and many others), Saccorhytus, was about a millimeter in size and lived between grains of sand on the ocean floor 540 million years ago. It also had a very large mouth, but surprisingly no anus
OEl7 TIL that Medieval European stained-glass windows contain tiny gold particles, which when energised by the sun’s rays, create a magnetic field that destroys air-borne pollutants.