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TIL popular German metal band Rammstein are named after the Ramstein airshow disaster.

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nevj9 TIL of the 1936 Nazi Board Game "Jews Out" where you move your 'Jews' outside of the city walls to 'collection points' so they can be sent to "Palestine"
0lnL TIL that before 194 BC, using sticks and shadows, Eratosthenes of Cyrene calculated the Earth’s circumference with an error between 2 and 15%, and calculated the tilt of the Earth and the distance of the Sun to the Earth with near perfect accuracy.
OGyZ1 TIL about the British post office scandal. Between 1999 and 2015 over 900 subpostmasters where prosecuted for theft and false accounting, when really it was a problem with their accounting software.
aKOM TIL of the Confederate Memorial Fountain in Helena, Montana which wasn’t formally recognized as a territory until 1864 and didn’t become a state until 1889. Confederate troops never came within 1,000 miles of the area
b6loN TIL that garbagemen in NYC make more than 100 thousand dollars a year