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TIL in WWII the Germans used “anti-officer crooked picture bombs”: They left paintings on the wall, skewed to the side and rigged to explode when straightened.

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p7LZ TIL Anna Williams received a bizarre poem lamenting her absence from her home on the night of April 28th, 1979. The author of the letter? The serial killer, BTK, who had been waiting in her bedroom closet that night.
5VlRR TIL Speakers of the Australian language Guugu Yimithirr, use cardinal directions instead of right and left such as, “Shift a bit to the East!”
Rwk6 TIL The Battle of Cannae is considered one of the worst single defeats in Western Military history. Rome lost 50,000 troops, 80 Senators and a Consul in a single day to the forces of Carthage.
7jnx TIL the pirate Hayreddin “Red beard” Barbarossa (1478-1546) was exiled from so many countries that he ended up starting his own country (Regency of Algiers) with the blessing of The Ottoman Empire which became present day Algeria, Tunisia and parts of Morocco.
Jlvl TIL there are dozens of diggers buried under luxury homes in London because it is cheaper to leave them there than to get them out and sell them on.