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TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower anticipated that someday an attempt would be made to recharacterize the Nazi crimes as propaganda. Subsequently, he urged Washington and London to send a random group of newspaper editors to capture evidence that the event existed.

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5YnBp TIL that many WW1 soldiers on the Western front spontaneously declared truces for Christmas 1914. On both sides, they left their trenches to bury their dead, hold church services, and trade cigars and other small goods in no man’s land.
Ooaa7 TIL of the "Gates of Hell" in Turkministan. In 1971, a Soviet drilling rig accidently punctured an underground natural gas cavern. To head off a environmental catastrophe, the Soviets set the gas on fire. The crater has been burning continuously for 47 years since.
4kk0R TIL that the iTunes Terms of Service includes a section prohibiting you from developing nuclear weapons using it.
BgKK TIL will.i.am of Black Eyed Peas fame started a car company, and tried to pass off a modified Delorean as his own original concept car. The car was later impounded by police when they caught him driving it illegally on public roads.
Aaka TIL that a Siamese twin got away with a crime because they could not jail his innocent conjoined twin.