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TIL that a 10x10 perfect “word square” has yet to be found, but has also not been disproven.

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OorOe TIL Of Operation Cornflakes in WWII, the OSS (predecessor of the CIA) as part of their psychological warfare campaign would drop fake mail in Nazi Germany that included a skull overlay that resembles a portion of Hitler’s jaw having been "eaten away".
g8Qb TIL Ernest Hemingway was among the first to liberate Paris during WWII BUT he went straight to his favorite bar at the Ritz, reclaimed it from Luftwaffe and spent the next week drunk
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6905l TIL Pope Leo X had a beloved pet elephant who died at the age of 6, with the Pope by his side, when they tried to treat his constipation with gold-enriched laxatives. The pope wrote a poem for him as an epitaph and Raphael made his portrait