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TIL Bill Maher Promoted: Cell Phones was Scam Back in 2003

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OGAj6 TIL After Nazi Germany's failure to take Moscow in 1942 some members of German leadership considered the war unwinnable and wanted a political end to the war. Albert Speer created propaganda about massive increases in military production that convinced people the war was still winnable.
R7kP9 TIL ancient Germanic armies would fight with their women wailing loudly from behind their formations, to constantly remind them that they must be victorious or their entire families would be annihilated.
0ba1 TIL: there is a pub in Ireland that has been in operation for over 1000 years.
JY1LQ TIL that Ricky Gutierrez set the Major League Baseball record for seeing the most pitches in a single at-bat (20) in 1998 against a pitcher, Bartolo Colon, who nearly 20 years later is still an active player.
0wb15 TIL That Tanis - The "Lost City" was made famous by the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, is a real city and located in the Nile Delta northeast of Cairo, was capital of the 21st and 22nd dynasties, during the reign of the Tanite kings in Egypt's Third Intermediate period.