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TIL all German students are required to visit old concentration camps as part of their education.

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W7GP8 TIL that General Patton as a young officer competed in the 1912 Olympics in Pentathlon where he came in 5th, mostly because he insisted on using his own .38 service revolver for the shooting event and left such large holes in the target that it could not be determined if all of the rounds had hit.
4gNa TIL there are six Celtic nations recognized by the Celtic League: Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany
YrbP TIL that someone built a Ferrari dragster that has a train supercharger.
J1BdQ TIL that an F-117 Nighthawk crashed in Sequoia National Forest in 1986, two years before the plane was publicly announced. The US Air Force established a permitter around the crash site and secretly replaced the wreckage with a wrecked F-101A that had been stored in Area 51 for this purpose.
4kEvg TIL about the first shoot down of a stealth fighter. The pilot and leader of the SAM site that shot him down are now friends.