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TIL NYC had a higher GDP than Mexico.

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188X TIL that a Mongol ruler had “Who ever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I” inscribed on his casket. On the day a Soviet anthropologist exhumed his body the largest military invasion in history was launched against the USSR.
OolrL TIL according to some German soldiers interviewed after the D Day landings, the most amazing thing about the allied invasion was not the immense scale, or anything like the surprise of tanks driving out of the sea, but the fact that the allies did not need to use any horses.
yGll TIL that until 1994, a pencil was inserted into a person’s hair to help determine a South African’s racial identity. If the pencil fell out easily, the person was considered white.
Y5kP TIL German and Swedish passports are the most powerful passports in the world. The least powerful is from Afghanistan.
NR48 TIL Cotard Delusion is a rare mental illness in which the affected person holds the belief that they are already dead, do not exist, or have lost their blood or internal organs.