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TIL Salvador Dali created a painting titled “Hitler Masturbating.”

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7rWW7 TIL that Canada declared war on Japan in response to the attack on Pearl Harbor before the United States declared war the next day.
J1Gav TIL the capital of Montserrat, Plymouth, is a ghost town. Plymouth was evacuated in 1995 when the nearby, long-inactive Soufrière Hills volcano resumed erupting, then it was permanently abandoned in 1997. A new capital is under construction.
pYBmp TIL that the homeownership rate is the proportion of households occupied by the owner divided by the total number of occupied households, so it does not actually reflect the % of human beings that rent - say you have 5 room mates. You only count as 1 "renter", the way the data usually presented
xdwD TIL the full translated name of Bangkok is “City of angels, great city of immortals, magnificent city of the nine gems, seat of the king, city of royal palaces, home of gods incarnate, erected by Vishvakarman at Indra’s behest”. It is the longest name for a city.
40v6 TIL that after WWII, a group of Jewish “Avengers” formulated a Holocaust revenge plan to kill 6 million Germans by poisoning the water supply of many German cities. However, the plan was foiled by British police while the poison was in transit.