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TIL Hobby Lobby was fined $3,000,000 for the illegal smuggling of over 5,500 cuneiform tablets from the middle east

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lo0YV TIL London once boasted a 7.5 acre human poop dump called Mount Pleasant
p8G8N TIL of Johann Elser, a German carpenter who almost killed Adolf Hitler and most of the top Nazi leaders shortly before the outbreak of WWII. He worked alone to construct and plant a bomb that went off just 13 minutes too late. He was a Christian motivated by a sense that millions would soon die.
W7R8A TIL Contrary to popular belief, the Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.
9QmX TIL - Before D-Day, the Daily Telegraph featured crossword puzzles which coincidentally had the same words as the codenames for the Normandy landings, leading to an arrest and interrogation.
4oaJ TIL that in October of 1981, a soviet Whiskey class submarine ran aground on the south coast of Sweden. This incident became known as “Whiskey on the rocks”.