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TIL Hitler was almost killed by a malfunctioning V-1 bomb after it hit his headquarters where he was planning his defense against the Normandy landings.

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M7OEW TIL Alaska uses military artillery guns for avalanche control
DQ1Ee TIL that in 1965, the painter Roman Opałka had the idea of representing the passing of time by painting numbers: he painted a 1, then a 2, then a 3, etc, and continued for the rest of his life. The last number he painted before he died in 2011 was 5607249.
VMRYB TIL Eating a polar bear liver will kill you, because it is overloaded with vitamin A which is far too toxic for humans
XxKD TIL London has an elevated system of walkways between buildings that was more or less abandoned in the 1980s.
X01OP TIL that the names "Arctic" and "Antarctic" comes from the Greek arktos, “bear,” because the constellation Ursa Major, “the greater she-bear” (also known as the Big Dipper), is always visible in the northern polar sky. “Antarctic,” then, means “opposite the bear.”