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TIL that Rolls Royce was going to name one of their models 'The Silver Mist' until someone pointed out that Mist is the German word for 'manure..'

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kO6Ee TIL that on February 20, 1939 there was a Nazi rally held at Madison Square Garden and over 20,000 people attended. The official name for the event was the “Pro American Rally”.
XEV6E TIL that when German intelligence discovered the phrase "Killroy was here" during World War 2 Hitler believed Killroy was the name of a high-level Allied spy
XEO5X TIL that in 2015 in LA, 96 million plastic balls known as "Shade Balls" were thrown into the water in an effort to conserve 300 million gallons of water
69m9Y TIL there is a theory that question mark orignated from the shape of cat's tail when it is inquisitve.
wMX1 TIL the flag of Nepal is so complicated that there is a 24-step instruction how to draw it in the constitution of Nepal