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TIL during the siege of Stalingrad the commanding officer Friedrich Paulus was promoted to Field Marshal with the expectation he commit suicide rather than surrender. After he surrendered he was heard saying “I have no intention of shooting myself for a Bohemian corporal”. He lived till 1957.

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BgLAr TIL the A26 motorway in France is so heavily used by British holidaymakers that it's officially nicknamed "Autoroute des Anglais" or "Motorway of the English"
p8ANN TIL about nine out of ten Lincoln Town Car buyers were over the age of 65.
p8db4 TIL an elementary school's obscenity filter changed every reference to the word "tit" to "breast," so when a child typed "U.S. Constitution" into the school computer, it changed it to "Consbreastution"
loNnB TIL that the Boltzmann Brain argument suggests it is more likely for a brain to spontaneously form (complete with false memories) than it is for our universe to have formed in the first place. This leads to the conclusion that statistically, we ourselves are Boltzmann Brains.
RGy6 TIL that Coca-Cola is sold (officially) in every country in the world except Cuba and North Korea.