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TIL people were using tidal power as early as 600 AD

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LkvQd TIL that the iconic neon cowboy in Las Vegas has a name, "Vegas Vic."
O95L TIL Mel Brooks was a combat engineer at the Battle of the Bulge. When the Nazis played their propaganda over loudspeakers, he responded by setting up his own sound system and playing music by Jewish singer Al Jolson
rRLmx TIL that Captain Gilberto Araujo da Silva was one of only 11 survivors of an airliner crash in 1973. In 1979, while flying the same type of plane for the same airline, his flight disappeared and was never found.
W7Yv9 TIL that the Nazis funded search missions for the holy grail and other mythical objects, which were an inspiration for Indiana Jones
M6E7 TIL cognitive scientist Brian Butterworth diagnosed Ronald Reagan with Alzheimer’s purely on the basis of speech errors in his speeches ten years before his disease was actually discovered