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TIL that mountain unicycling is an actual sport

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Y78kx TIL During the opening Blitzkrieg of WW2, that while the German Army possessed motorized vehicles and an impressive tank strategy, the majority of her forces relied on horse-drawn transport and supply
060A TIL - After the end of WW II, the Allies sold captured Enigma machines, still widely considered secure, to developing countries. These countries did not know that the machine had been broken, their supposedly secure communications were being read regularly by the major Western intelligence agencies
epW4 TIL Scientists lit a cave of natural gas on fire in 1971 expecting it to only burn for a few days; it still burns till this day. it has been nicknamed “The Door to Hell”
oBX4o TIL “Crank Magnetism” is the term for the likelihood that a person who believes in one ridiculous conspiracy will probably believe many others, even if they logically conflict.
x66Yg TIL King Louis XIV of France covered his telescope’s objective lens with a piece of smoked glass to view the solar eclipse. This method remained popular for a couple hundred years until the 1930s when products such as the Eclipse-o-scope became available