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TIL The Jeddah Tower is being constructed in Saudi Arabia. It will take the title of world’s tallest building from the Burj Khalifa and they were both designed by the same American architect.

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x6NR1 TIL About Task Force Baum. Compromised of elements of the 4th Armored Division the unit was ordered to liberate a German POW camp towards the end of WW II. Most of the Force was killed or captured and it later alleged the purpose of the raid was to rescue Patton's son in law.
ANXjd TIL: about Exercise Tiger, a large scale practice run months before for the D-Day invasion. Friendly fire from communication errors and attacks from Nazi E-Boats resulted in the deaths of 749 men. Eisenhower ordered that all servicemen be sworn to secrecy and was publicly unknown until the 1980s
7mOX TIL some humans can be tetrachromats, which gives them the ability to see more colours than a normal human, like Concetta Antico, an Australian artist who can see 100 times more colors than a regular human.
69vwY TIL in 1999 Gaston Glock, inventor of the Glock pistol, suspected Charles Ewert, his closest adviser had been embezzling funds. Glock confronted Ewert, who then hired an assassin named Spartacus, to murder Glock who was able to fight back, by punching the assassin until he collapsed on top of Glock.
8evK TIL the story of Catalina de Frauso, a Basque Nun who escaped her nunnery at the age of 15 in 1599 and became a cross dressing Spanish soldier who traveled the New World. She even coincidentally killed her brother in a duel and flirted with other women.