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TIL: The Holy Roman Empire (800-1806) was the First Reich and eventually became Germany. This is what Hitler's Third Reich was attempting to recreate.

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xBvw TIL that in 1988 Reagan prevented the Senate from putting sanctions on Iraq for its violation of the Geneva Protocol on Chemical Weapons. The US also voted against a UN Security Council statement condemning Iraq’s use of chemical weapons
5G4B TIL That there was an experiment where three schizophrenics claiming to be Jesus were brought together to see how they reacted with each other. They each eventually explained the other two as being mental patients in a hospital, or dead and being operated by machines.
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rRbG4 TIL so many tools were made from Libyan sandstone in the stone age that it is enough for 84 million Great Pyramids of Giza, ~2 per square km of Africa.